Installing Win2K over WinXP Home?

[Terry Straehley]

Can Win 2K Workstation, be installed over WINXP Home? A friend has a
laptop that he wants to take into work, but can't join the domain there.
Win 2K is available to him, not WinXP Pro. Is this an option without a
dual boot or reformat? Is suspect the answer is no, but I just wanted
to make sure. Thanks

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

Can Win 2K Workstation, be installed over WINXP Home? A friend has a
laptop that he wants to take into work, but can't join the domain there.
Win 2K is available to him, not WinXP Pro. Is this an option without a
dual boot or reformat? Is suspect the answer is no, but I just wanted
to make sure. Thanks

Hi

Nope, you cannot install Win2k on top of any WinXP version...

 

[Madhur Ahuja]

Can Win 2K Workstation, be installed over WINXP Home? A friend has a
laptop that he wants to take into work, but can't join the domain there.
Win 2K is available to him, not WinXP Pro. Is this an option without a
dual boot or reformat? Is suspect the answer is no, but I just wanted
to make sure. Thanks

Hello

Actually you can, but its bit tricky.

After Installing Windows 2000, Windows XP will not be bootable.
To make it bootable, you have to replace ntldr and other startup files from
you XP CD to the hard disk.
This is because Windows 2000 replaces them with its own which doesnt work
with XP.

You can search the google for more information.

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Madhur Ahuja
India

Homepage : http://madhur.netfirms.com
Email : madhur<underscore>ahuja<at>yahoo<dot>com

 

[dcdon]

Try Dual Boot

don



Can Win 2K Workstation, be installed over WINXP Home? A friend has a
laptop that he wants to take into work, but can't join the domain
there.
Win 2K is available to him, not WinXP Pro. Is this an option without
a
dual boot or reformat? Is suspect the answer is no, but I just
wanted
to make sure. Thanks

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

There is no "rollback" to Win2K. To replace WinXP with an earlier
OS, you'll have to boot from the appropriate boot disk, format the
hard drive, and install. There is no supported downgrade path or
technique. Additionally, there is no supported upgrade or downgrade
path to migrate between a workstation OS and a server OS, in either
direction. A clean installation is required.

Simply boot from the Win2K installation CD. You'll be offered the
opportunity to delete, create, and/or format the system partition as
part of the installation process. (You may need to re-arrange the
order of boot devices in the PC's BIOS to boot from the CD.)


Bruce Chambers
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