Upgrade Problems

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I recently upgraded my laptop from Millennium to Win2k, when asked if I
wanted to switch from FAT32 to NTFS, I did. Now I have done this before with
no loss of data or missing applications...but this time---HELP!!!
For some reason I now have a dual boot machine, unfortunatley all of my
data, files and applications are still with the Millennium portion of this
setup. As I am sure you are aware, I cannot access Millennium with the NTFS
file system. Is there ANY way for me to retreive this information?
Thanks
 
Caterpat said:
I recently upgraded my laptop from Millennium to Win2k, when asked if I
wanted to switch from FAT32 to NTFS, I did. Now I have done this before with
no loss of data or missing applications...but this time---HELP!!!
For some reason I now have a dual boot machine, unfortunatley all of my
data, files and applications are still with the Millennium portion of this
setup. As I am sure you are aware, I cannot access Millennium with the NTFS
file system. Is there ANY way for me to retreive this information?
Thanks
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There appear to be a few problems with your machine.

- Win2000 came out first, WinME later. There is therefore no "upgrade"
path from Win2000 to WinME; if anything it would be a "downgrade".
Many people have tried this, some have succeeded, others experience
weird and wonderful problems.

- The iron law of computing says that all important files must be
backed up to an independent medium once every week, and
especially so before an upgrade. Many people choose to ignore
this law until they suffer a major disaster.

- What exactly do you mean when you write that your data files
are "still with the Millenium portion"? Win2000 can access any
part of the disk - did you have a look in the folders used by WinME?

- It is quite easy to remove the dual boot mode from a PC.
However, before you do this, you must resolve your data file
problem. Use "My Computer" or Start / Search to find at least
one of your missing files. The remainder are probably in the same
place.

If this was my machine then I would back up all important files,
check my backups, then re-install Win2000 from scratch, allowing
the disk to be formatted in the process. I would even go one step
further: Make two partitions on the disk so that I can store all data
files on drive D:. It makes future upgrades so much easier, because
the data is no longer on the same drive as the OS.
 
Thanks, and I have found the files or at least where they are located, I keep
getting a message saying that the path has changed...How do I get these items
from ME to WIN2k inorder for them to work
 
Caterpat said:
I recently upgraded my laptop from Millennium to Win2k, when asked if I
wanted to switch from FAT32 to NTFS, I did. Now I have done this before with
no loss of data or missing applications...but this time---HELP!!!
For some reason I now have a dual boot machine, unfortunatley all of my
data, files and applications are still with the Millennium portion of this
setup. As I am sure you are aware, I cannot access Millennium with the NTFS
file system. Is there ANY way for me to retreive this information?
Thanks
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It's not technically possible to perform an upgrade from WinMe to
Win2K, as WinMe is the newer OS. You will 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.


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Okay, you have to realize that at this point ME is killed. Not usable in any
form. Forget about ME and any possibility of using it to recover your
applications. Your FILES are still there in their original locations, what
you need to do is to reinstall the applications in Windows 2000.
Unfortunately, that's about the only way you're gonna salvage anything from
your "upgrade". Actually, you didn't upgrade at all. What you did was to
install Windows 2000 in addition to Windows ME. In the process you rendered
ME useless by converting the file system to NTFS which cannot be used by ME.
As previously stated, the only way you can have use of your applications is
to completely reinstall each one of them. Normally this is a fairly time
consuming task.

Your best bet would be to backup your data files (after locating them) onto
some external media and then do a complete format and clean install of
windows 2000. Relinstall all your applications and then restore your data
from the backup. Any other course of action is likely to result in an
unstable and unreliable system.
 
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