win2000 to winXP upgrade

[Guest]

I am running two versions of windows 2000PRO and one of win 98SE each in its
own partition, all the logical drives are "basic" as opposed to "dynamic" and
I am able to boot up to any of the o.s.'s. I recently purchased a Win XP
HOME ED UPGRADE which is supposed to work with win 95 and newer. I intended
to upgrade my windows 98 SE to XP so that I could boot to either of the 2
o/s's. After an hour of analyzing my system, set up stopped and advised me
that the upgrade did not support multibooting. Can any one tell me what I
need to do to be able to have both WIN 2000 PRO & WIN XP, is this something
that only XP PRO supports as opposed to HOME ED., or is a FULL install
required as opposed to an UPGRADE???

Please help !!!!????

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Only Windows XP Professional can be used to upgrade over Windows 2000.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User

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| I am running two versions of windows 2000PRO and one of win 98SE each in its
| own partition, all the logical drives are "basic" as opposed to "dynamic" and
| I am able to boot up to any of the o.s.'s. I recently purchased a Win XP
| HOME ED UPGRADE which is supposed to work with win 95 and newer. I intended
| to upgrade my windows 98 SE to XP so that I could boot to either of the 2
| o/s's. After an hour of analyzing my system, set up stopped and advised me
| that the upgrade did not support multibooting. Can any one tell me what I
| need to do to be able to have both WIN 2000 PRO & WIN XP, is this something
| that only XP PRO supports as opposed to HOME ED., or is a FULL install
| required as opposed to an UPGRADE???
|
| Please help !!!!????

 

[Guest]

Thanks Carey, that solves part of the mistery. New question: Can I use XP
PRO Upgrade Edition then to upgrade one of the two WIN2K instances I have
presently running and be able to have multiple O/S's to boot from (the new
upgrade to XP and the present WIN 2K) or do I need to fresh install a full
vers. of XP PRO?

Thanks again,
xp-lost (still but not as much as before!!!)