Install WinXP and hosed access to Win 2000 Pro

[FredZimmerman]

I was attempting to get Win XP Pro installed on my current Win 2000 Pro
machine. I got near the end of XP install from (2-CPU license) CD. It
gave me the message that I could not upgrade to Win XP Pro from Win
2000 Pro. I thought that would kill my XP install completely, but it
allowed it to continue, which I did.

My hope was to have all apps, and registry settings, hardware config,
etc upgrade to XP on boot to that OS.

Much to my chagrin not only did booting to XP not show anything from my
old Win2000 desktop, but I could no longer boot to Win 2000 from
multi-boot screen.
It gets to 6 blue bars (about halfway) then stops dead with Win2000
logo screen appearing.

What can I do here?

F.Z.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I was attempting to get Win XP Pro installed on my current Win 2000 Pro
machine. I got near the end of XP install from (2-CPU license) CD. It
gave me the message that I could not upgrade to Win XP Pro from Win
2000 Pro. I thought that would kill my XP install completely, but it
allowed it to continue, which I did.

My hope was to have all apps, and registry settings, hardware config,
etc upgrade to XP on boot to that OS.

Much to my chagrin not only did booting to XP not show anything from my
old Win2000 desktop, but I could no longer boot to Win 2000 from
multi-boot screen.
It gets to 6 blue bars (about halfway) then stops dead with Win2000
logo screen appearing.

What can I do here?

F.Z.

First, use your original Win2K installation CD to repair the Win2K
installation so you can back up your data files to another drive. Then,
use your OEM WinXP CD to format the hard drive and perform a clean
installation. (The error message you received means that you're using
an OEM CD. OEM CDs cannot perform upgrades.)


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[FredZ]

Bruce,

Thanks for reply. I read another post that talked about re-copying W2K
system files to C: root, since all other files (including registry) are
intact from original installation. I'd prefer not to have to
re-install my machine and applications if I can avoid it. Is that
possible?

Fred Z.

 

[DL]

(The error message you received means that you're using
an OEM CD. OEM CDs cannot perform upgrades.)

Answered by Bruce
You have to Format - Install Win, Install Apps, recover data

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Bruce,

Thanks for reply. I read another post that talked about re-copying W2K
system files to C: root, since all other files (including registry) are
intact from original installation. I'd prefer not to have to
re-install my machine and applications if I can avoid it. Is that
possible?

Fred Z.

That should work; it's what I meant by advising you to use the Win2K CD
to repair the Win2K installation. Information at these sites might also
help:

Description of the Windows 2000 Recovery Console (Q229716)
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=kb;en-us;Q229716

Install Win2K after WinXP
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_2k.htm


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[Charlie Tame]

Fred, I dunno if this is a truly valid tip but I can't see it doing any harm
to mention.

I would advise that with both systems, restoring upgrading or whatever
(especially if you have data on another drive or partition in the existing
system) try to use the same computer name, workgroup name, admin name and
password. I've had a couple of occasions where letting the install choose
default names seems to prevent access to existing drives. For example a
drive would show 30GB with 15GB free but no files.

Also, if a drive bigger than 137 is installed your new OS may not recognise
the drive above 137 and think any files there are garbled so it may run
scandisk during the latter part of the install... after which your files
truly will be garbled You may have had to run a utility when the drive
was first fitted and you need to sit with it and stop the scandisk so you
can run the utility after install.

If this is superfluous don;t worry about it, just mentioned in case you fall
into the same traps I have in the past

Charlie