xp to win 2000

[James D. Houston]

About a month ago I bought a new, bigger hard drive for an older PC. I
decided to install XP Pro on the new hard drive. I've since decided I'd
rather use Windows 2000 on this machine. My question is: does anybody have
any recommendations on how to remove XP and do a clean install without
reformatting the hard drive? Thanks in advance.

Jim

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

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About a month ago I bought a new, bigger hard drive for an older PC. I
decided to install XP Pro on the new hard drive. I've since
decided I'd rather use Windows 2000 on this machine. My question is:
does anybody have any recommendations on how to remove XP and do a
clean install without reformatting the hard drive? Thanks in advance.

Jim

Alas, not possible. You will need to flatten & reinstall from scratch (after
backing up all your data) and then reinstall all your programs - there's no
downgrade in place possible. .

Since XP Pro is really still Win2k with more bells and whistles (many of
which you can hide/disable if you don't like the Fisher-Price interface, as
many don't), I don't really see why you'd want to go to the trouble.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

About a month ago I bought a new, bigger hard drive for an older PC. I
decided to install XP Pro on the new hard drive. I've since decided I'd
rather use Windows 2000 on this machine. My question is: does anybody have
any recommendations on how to remove XP and do a clean install without
reformatting the hard drive? Thanks in advance.

Jim

- Boot the machine with your Win2000 CD.
- Follow the prompts to do a Windows 2000 installation.
- Launch Windows 2000.
- Rename c:\Windows to c:\Windows.XP.
- Wait a week.
- If all is well, delete c:\Windows.XP.

 

[Dave Patrick]

What is the problem with formatting? Nothing now installed within XP will be
useful.

To do a clean install, either boot the Windows 2000 install CD-Rom or setup
disks. The set of four install disks can be created from your Windows 2000
CD-Rom; change to the \bootdisk directory on the CD-Rom and execute
makeboot.exe (from dos) or makebt32.exe (from 32 bit) and follow the
prompts.

(Note: If your drive controller is not natively supported then you'll want
to boot the Windows 2000 install CD-Rom. Then *F6* very early and very
important (at setup is inspecting your system) in the setup to prevent drive
controller detection, and select S to specify additional drivers. Then later
you'll be prompted to insert the manufacturer supplied Windows 2000 driver
for your drive controller in drive "A")

Setup inspects your computer's hardware configuration and then begins to
install the Setup and driver files. When the Windows 2000 Professional
screen appears, press ENTER to set up Windows 2000 Professional.

Read the license agreement, and then press the F8 key to accept the terms of
the license agreement and continue the installation.

When the Windows 2000 Professional Setup screen appears, all the existing
partitions and the unpartitioned spaces are listed for each physical hard
disk. Use the ARROW keys to select the partitions Press D to delete an
existing partition, If you press D to delete an existing partition, you must
then press L (or press ENTER, and then press L if it is the System
partition) to confirm that you want to delete the partition. Repeat this
step for each of the existing partitions When all the partitions are deleted
press F3 to exit setup, (to avoid unexpected drive letter assignments with
your new install) then restart the pc then when you get to this point in
setup again select the unpartitioned space, and then press C to create a new
partition and specify the size (if required). Windows will by default use
all available space.

Be sure to apply SP4 and these two below to your new install before
connecting to any network. Internet included. (sasser, msblast)
http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/6/A/E6A04295-D2A8-40D0-A0C5-241BFECD095E/W2KSP4_EN.EXE
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-043.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-049.mspx

Then

Rollup 1 for Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...CF-8850-4531-B52B-BF28B324C662&displaylang=en



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[James D. Houston]

I don't care for the Fisher-Price interface, but that's not why I want to go
back to W2K. Ever since I installed XP, I've been having a problem where XP
behaves as if I'm holding the shift or control keys down. If, for example,
I click on the text in a file rename dialog box, XP will highlight the the
text from the from the point where I clicked to the beginning of the line.
The backspace and delete keys sometimes stop working. Also, I use a freeware
program called CDisplay to sequentially view images. You hit either Page Up
or Page Down to view the next image in the list. CDisplay worked fine when
I was running W2K on this pc, and it works on other XP machines. But on
this pc, it skips every other image in the sequence. If anyone has any idea
how to fix this please let me know.

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

 

[Dave Patrick]

Sounds like a hardware and or driver issue. I'd start with the graphics
adapter.

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[JBrunelle]

If you have a third party keyboard, you might try and find new
drivers, seems like the driver is corrupt, or your keyboard is
misfiring. In a document, if there are multiple pages, does pageUP/
down register twice? Or only in this program?

 

[Rock]

I don't care for the Fisher-Price interface, but that's not why I want to
go back to W2K. Ever since I installed XP, I've been having a problem
where XP behaves as if I'm holding the shift or control keys down. If, for
example, I click on the text in a file rename dialog box, XP will highlight
the the text from the from the point where I clicked to the beginning of
the line. The backspace and delete keys sometimes stop working. Also, I use
a freeware program called CDisplay to sequentially view images. You hit
either Page Up or Page Down to view the next image in the list. CDisplay
worked fine when I was running W2K on this pc, and it works on other XP
machines. But on this pc, it skips every other image in the sequence. If
anyone has any idea how to fix this please let me know.

Change the theme to windows classic. You're problems suggest
hardware/driver issues. Update the drivers for the mouse, keyboard and
graphics drivers to the latest ones that are XP compatible. Do not get
driver updates from the windows update site. Get them from the device
manufacturer's web site if they are retail devices, the computer OEM web
site if it's a major OEM like Dell or HP, or from the motherboard
manufacturer's web site.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

About a month ago I bought a new, bigger hard drive for an older PC. I
decided to install XP Pro on the new hard drive. I've since decided I'd
rather use Windows 2000 on this machine. My question is: does anybody have
any recommendations on how to remove XP and do a clean install without
reformatting the hard drive? Thanks in advance.

Jim

It can't be done without formatting the hard drive. In fact, that's
what a "Clean installation" requires, by definition.

The normal way to "uninstall" any operating system is to format
the hard drive and install a new OS of your choice.


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[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

It can't be done without formatting the hard drive. In fact, that's
what a "Clean installation" requires, by definition.

Yes, it can be done without formatting the current WinXP
partition. Just boot the machine with your Win2000 CD and
select "Install" when prompted. Since Win2000 will be installed
in the folder C:\WinNT (as opposed to C:\Windows for WinXP),
it is almost as good as a "clean installation".

It would still be a good idea to back up your data files beforehand.

 

[Gordon]

I don't care for the Fisher-Price interface,

You can put XP back to the classic W2K format.....