Upgrade from win2000 to XP Pro swiched boot drives

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ArnieP

I upgraded a Win 2000 machine with XP pro. Somewhere in the upgrade
procedure it created a new Drive C and renamed the old drive D to C.
The programs that were on C are now on D.
Start Programs only has new programs in it.
Any ideas on how I can recover from this?
 
D

DL

It sounds like you installed winxp and didnt upgrade.
The default win boot drive is C, if yours was origonally D then your
origonal win2k installation was slightly odd

The simplest way to recover is to clean install, deleting all partitions in
the process
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
Dont forget to backup all data first, and install mobo chipset and other hw
drivers after. Dont rely on winxp default drivers or drivers from winupdate
 

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