Win2000 cannot detect ME for duel boot (Page 2)

Win2000 cannot detect ME for duel boot

I have ME on C drive on a 13gig. I have D on a 4gig. I put Win2000 in my CD drive which is E. It auto runs, tells asks me if I would like to upgrade to Win2000 since it is newer. If I click no, then I have the option to hit install (for duel boot), then it tells me it cannot detect my current version of Windows.

Legacy OS 455 This topic was started by Emilee1, 2000-10-29 20:59

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Emilee1

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#32105

2000-10-29 21:59

I have ME on C drive on a 13gig. I have D on a 4gig. I put Win2000 in my CD drive which is E. It auto runs, tells asks me if I would like to upgrade to Win2000 since it is newer.

If I click no, then I have the option to hit install (for duel boot), then it tells me it cannot detect my current version of Windows.

If I select yes for upgrade to Win2000, it again tells me it cannot detect my current version of Windows.

Any way around this?

Windows NT 4 Workstation & Windows 2000 Pro dual boot

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Emilee1

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#32126

2000-11-02 22:14

You mean people actually buy Microsoft software? Naw, I got a friend with the retail version, Ill try that.

Now if I can just get back my lost partition.... any ideas?

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#32127

2000-11-02 23:22

fdisk

-bZj

Emilee1

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#32128

2000-11-03 01:52

My other partitions are still in use though. I have C, D, E, F, and G. Along with my CD, and CD-R. Its just that I used to have H as a partition too....

I dont want to lose any info trying to get my other 2gigs back

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#32129

2000-11-03 02:00

The don't mess with the other partitions. just fdisk the one you need back, then format it, but not as the active drive.

-bZj

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#32130

2000-11-03 02:24

You lost your D partition cause any 9x operating system can't read/write to NTFS partitions by default. You can recover it via fdisk I think. But if you are going to install Win 2k don't worry about it cause the setup will find it.