Migrating from 2000 Advance Server to XP

[kotchkotch]

Can it be done without having to resort to a clean install
(i.e. can all my applications and settings be preserved)?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Windows XP is a workstation operating system. It cannot
upgrade over an existing server operating system.

Clean Install Windows XP
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Michael Stevens]

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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[Guest]

It should be possible, but I wouldn't sugest it. I would take it up from 2000 Adv. Server to 2003 Server. Taking it to XP would be downgrading it to a workstation again.

 

[Cerridwen]

It should be possible, but I wouldn't sugest it. I would take it up
from 2000 Adv. Server to 2003 Server. Taking it to XP would be
downgrading it to a workstation again.

That's what he wants to do - and, had you'd read Carey's reply, you'd have
known that installing a workstation OS over a server OS is /not/ possible.