Take a look at
How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;292175
What an In-Place Windows 2000 Upgrade Changes and What It Does Not Change
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;306952
"Gil" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> My Win2k crashed and the ERD didn't exist and the
> System.alt was corrupt as well. I now need to reinstall
> the O/S over the existing one.
> Are there any road bumps to look out for? I just don't
> want to lose any email addresses or emails.
> Is there a way to import registry entries from the old
> one? Can that be done (It would save a lot of time
> reinstalling existing software...)
> Thanks in Advance,
> Gil