Upgrade from Windows NT to Windows 2000 Professional

[Michael W]

Question...

I am currently running Windows NT 4.0 SP3 on my PC at
home. I received (after my original purchase in 2000) an
upgrade to Windows 2000 Professional - but I never
upgraded. I am ready to upgrade now but have a question...

My hard drive is partitioned as C:\ E:\ and F:\ (D:\ is my
internal ZIP drive). The C:\ drive has about 165MB
available disk space. The E:\ and F:\ drives have lots of
space (over 1 GB each).

Can I upgrade to Windows 2000 without scraping things off
my C:\ drive?

 

[Chuck]

Question...

I am currently running Windows NT 4.0 SP3 on my PC at
home. I received (after my original purchase in 2000) an
upgrade to Windows 2000 Professional - but I never
upgraded. I am ready to upgrade now but have a question...

My hard drive is partitioned as C:\ E:\ and F:\ (D:\ is my
internal ZIP drive). The C:\ drive has about 165MB
available disk space. The E:\ and F:\ drives have lots of
space (over 1 GB each).

Can I upgrade to Windows 2000 without scraping things off
my C:\ drive?

Michael,

I wouldn't bet my money on your being able to fit Win2K on top of
WINNT with just an additional 165M. Minimally, if you're that tight,
you won't be getting very good performance (fragmentation alone must
be a drag). 90% is the maximum utilisation advised.

Is your page file on your C: drive? Maybe moving it would help.

What is the total size of C: anyway?

Cheers,

Chuck
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