Upgrade from Windows ME?

[David H. Lipman]

There is no upgrade path from WinME to Win2K.

Dave





| I am running Windows ME at the moment, but would like to upgrade to Windows
| 2000 Pro. Is it possible without losing my docs, spreadsheets and installed
| software?
| Also Windows ME is set up with 2 profiles (my wife's and mine), will they
| remain?
| Thank you
|
|

 

[RH]

I am running Windows ME at the moment, but would like to upgrade to Windows
2000 Pro. Is it possible without losing my docs, spreadsheets and installed
software?
Also Windows ME is set up with 2 profiles (my wife's and mine), will they
remain?
Thank you

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

It's not technically possible to perform an upgrade from WinMe to
Win2K, as WinMe is the newer OS. You'll have to back up your data and
start with a clean hard drive.

Windows Me to Windows 2000 Upgrade Is Not Supported
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;272627.

Simply boot from the Win2K installation CD. You'll be offered the
opportunity to delete, create, and format partitions 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.)

Before proceeding, though, you'd better take a few minutes to
ensure that there are Win2K device drivers available for your PC's
specific components. There may not be, if the PC was specifically
designed for WinMe. Have you made sure the PC is capable of
supporting Win2K? This information will be found at the PC's
manufacturer's web site, and on Microsoft's Hardware Compatibility
List (http://www.microsoft.com/hcl/default.asp). Also bear in mind
that computers designed for, and sold with, WinMe very often fail to
meet Win2K's much more stringent hardware quality requirements.


Bruce Chambers
--
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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. - RAH

 

[Guillermo]

yes, but even though ME its newer, I would consider an UPGRADE switching
from ME to the older w2k (new install of course), as I consider w2K a much
superior OS than ME.
I wouldnt recommend any upgrade at any time, a clean install is always the
best to do as operating systems tend to degrade with time and tend to
degrade much faster if you follow an upgrade procedure.


guillermo

 

[Eric McG]

There's more to it than just that. There's a difference in the registry
structure and Win2K doesn't know anything about System Restore. See this article
for more details:

Windows Me to Windows 2000 Upgrade Is Not Supported
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;272627

 

[David H. Lipman]

As Eric pointed out, its a Logistic recognition problem, not a human intuition situation.

Dave



| yes, but even though ME its newer, I would consider an UPGRADE switching
| from ME to the older w2k (new install of course), as I consider w2K a much
| superior OS than ME.
| I wouldnt recommend any upgrade at any time, a clean install is always the
| best to do as operating systems tend to degrade with time and tend to
| degrade much faster if you follow an upgrade procedure.
|
|
| guillermo
|
| | > Greetings --
| >
| > It's not technically possible to perform an upgrade from WinMe to
| > Win2K, as WinMe is the newer OS. You'll have to back up your data and
| > start with a clean hard drive.
| >
| > Windows Me to Windows 2000 Upgrade Is Not Supported
| > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;272627.
| >
| > Simply boot from the Win2K installation CD. You'll be offered the
| > opportunity to delete, create, and format partitions 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.)
| >
| > Before proceeding, though, you'd better take a few minutes to
| > ensure that there are Win2K device drivers available for your PC's
| > specific components. There may not be, if the PC was specifically
| > designed for WinMe. Have you made sure the PC is capable of
| > supporting Win2K? This information will be found at the PC's
| > manufacturer's web site, and on Microsoft's Hardware Compatibility
| > List (http://www.microsoft.com/hcl/default.asp). Also bear in mind
| > that computers designed for, and sold with, WinMe very often fail to
| > meet Win2K's much more stringent hardware quality requirements.
| >
| >
| > Bruce Chambers
| > --
| > Help us help you:
| >
| >
| >
| > You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
| > having both at once. - RAH
| >
| >
| > | > >I am running Windows ME at the moment, but would like to upgrade to
| > >Windows
| > > 2000 Pro. Is it possible without losing my docs, spreadsheets and
| > > installed
| > > software?
| > > Also Windows ME is set up with 2 profiles (my wife's and mine), will
| > > they
| > > remain?
| > > Thank you
| > >
| > >
| >
| >
|
|

 

[Guillermo]

yea, I know an upgrade can't be done, I was just pointing out that w2k is
much more better than ME even though its older

 

[Ray]

Looks like I won't be moving to W2K for a while. It may be a better system
than ME, but I don't want to re-install all my apps and have to go through
the setting up of email, anti-virus, etc.
I tried XP but I found it had more gimmicks than uses.
Thanks for all the replies. I consider myself enlightened!

 

[JM]

quoting:

Looks like I won't be moving to W2K for a while. It may be a better system
than ME, but I don't want to re-install all my apps and have to go through
the setting up of email, anti-virus, etc.
I tried XP but I found it had more gimmicks than uses.
Thanks for all the replies. I consider myself enlightened!

Try http://www.spearit.com/

It can migrate all your stuff from computer to computer, partition to
partition, and even on the same partition. It's a little messy since it
combines C:\windows from the old OS to c:\winnt. But it works. I've used
it from win98 to win2k and only 4 of my apps had to be reinstalled.