Upgrading with XP / From 2K
Hi. I didnt knwo where exactly to post this so ill try here first. I have been running XP for a couple of weeks now and am impressed. Even though its RC1. What i would like to knwo is can you upgrade from Win2k to XP.
Hi. I didnt knwo where exactly to post this so ill try here first.
I have been running XP for a couple of weeks now and am impressed. Even though its RC1.
What i would like to knwo is can you upgrade from Win2k to XP.
I have read about putting it on seperate partition but I cant do this on this particular machine.
I have found out ill be my microtek scanner missing. Not much of a problem as ill shift to another machine.
Does XP upgrade WIn2k and save system files.
Ie can i uninstall later and revert back to WIn2k.
I have two OS on this machine Win2k and Win98.
Id like to get rid of win98. And id like to be able to uninstall XP and revert back to WIn2k but not sure if it is possible.
Arian
I have been running XP for a couple of weeks now and am impressed. Even though its RC1.
What i would like to knwo is can you upgrade from Win2k to XP.
I have read about putting it on seperate partition but I cant do this on this particular machine.
I have found out ill be my microtek scanner missing. Not much of a problem as ill shift to another machine.
Does XP upgrade WIn2k and save system files.
Ie can i uninstall later and revert back to WIn2k.
I have two OS on this machine Win2k and Win98.
Id like to get rid of win98. And id like to be able to uninstall XP and revert back to WIn2k but not sure if it is possible.
Arian
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First things first: never upgrade operating systems, always do a clean install. You'll save yourself hours of headaches if you do a clean install. This goes for any operating system - with an upgrade, you are trying to squeeze one OS into another, and things invariably get squeezed in the wrong way, or don't manage to fit!
Even if you do upgrade (and you'll be going against the advice of every member of this board!), I doubt that you'll be able to uninstall WinXP - you'd have to reinstall Win2k from scratch.
The best way of installing 2 OSs on one computer is to partition your hard drive into 2 (or more) partitions, install Win2k to the first partition and WinXP to the 2nd partition.
This way, when you decide to get rid of XP, all you have to do is format the partition!
Hope this helps,
AndyF
Even if you do upgrade (and you'll be going against the advice of every member of this board!), I doubt that you'll be able to uninstall WinXP - you'd have to reinstall Win2k from scratch.
The best way of installing 2 OSs on one computer is to partition your hard drive into 2 (or more) partitions, install Win2k to the first partition and WinXP to the 2nd partition.
This way, when you decide to get rid of XP, all you have to do is format the partition!
Hope this helps,
AndyF
I'm sorry, but upgrading is not as bad as everyone says it is.
I went from
dos 6.22
windows 95
windows 98
windows 98se
windows 2000
windows xp rc1
windows xp rc2
That is my upgrade path I did earlier this month. My second machine has gone through a similar upgrade path. I have had 0 problems, and performance and hard drive space has not been a problem either. Registry settings can be cleaned and old exe's can be deleted. To answer the thread though you can upgrade windows 2000 Pro to win xp Pro. 98/Me can be upgraded to either xp home or Pro.
My workstation at work has gone from
NT 3.51 (dual booted with OS/2)
NT 4.0
Windows 2000
Windows XP RC1
Windows XP RC2
again with no problems.
I went from
dos 6.22
windows 95
windows 98
windows 98se
windows 2000
windows xp rc1
windows xp rc2
That is my upgrade path I did earlier this month. My second machine has gone through a similar upgrade path. I have had 0 problems, and performance and hard drive space has not been a problem either. Registry settings can be cleaned and old exe's can be deleted. To answer the thread though you can upgrade windows 2000 Pro to win xp Pro. 98/Me can be upgraded to either xp home or Pro.
My workstation at work has gone from
NT 3.51 (dual booted with OS/2)
NT 4.0
Windows 2000
Windows XP RC1
Windows XP RC2
again with no problems.
I have never ever had a good upgrade from an OS. Linux takes forever--I'm serious when I say it was a day--and Windows gets fouled up everytime I've done an upgrade.
Seriously, save yourself the pain an agony of a reinstall later on and do the clean install now. Better safe than sorry...
Don't say ya weren't warned...
Seriously, save yourself the pain an agony of a reinstall later on and do the clean install now. Better safe than sorry...
Don't say ya weren't warned...
It is just a matter of choice, some people have bad hardware upgrades, some have bad luck even upgrading internet explorer, but over all there is no right or wrong way. If you know what you are doing. then you won't have a problem upgrading anything.
