[Craney]

Hello Everyone,

I need some help and thought you people with your words of wisdom could help me, I need some help on how EXACTLY to install Windows 2000 pro, I currently have Windows XP Pro, and please, no lectures about staying on it. So the other week I tried it myself, put in my CD and booted from it, it never found any setup (i think) to boot from, it said "Please remove floppy disk or other media and press any key to reboot" it never worked, so could you nice people tell me how I would go about this please? I mean leave out absolutely NO DETAIL left out, I really need to be certain about this

And if you could reply tonite I would be gratful, I'm getting my ADSL installed tomorrow so would like to do it before that happens.

Regards

Alex Crane

[shareef59]

@Craney

Can you please confirm whether you want to run BOTH OS on the same system or you want to REPLACE WinXP and prefer to have Win2K as your only OS.

[Craney]

@shareef59

I only want Win 2k, not XP, so only Win 2k as my OS

[likuidkewl]

Have you backed up all your critical files and personal items from the hard drive?
Do you have access to all the drivers you will need for going back to an older os?
Have you gotten the latest SP(4) for windows 2000 and integrated it, or have it burned to a cd? If yes to all these then please proceed to the following link:
http://www.petri.co....2k_after_xp.htm

Good Luck!


//**Edit**//
Since you don't want XP, stop at step 4, eventhough it is a safer way to do it, you can reformat the whole partition in the setup wizard and then it will erase the entire disk so no more winXP only 2000. I do recommend following the guide just incase you need some files off of your XP partiton.

[Craney]

I have all that yes, Windows 2000 SP4, latest one.

[Craney]

i just saw this

Proceed with the install. Install Windows 2000 to a different partition than XP is installed in.

Can't I just format that from the prompt, then put 2000 on?

[likuidkewl]

You can try it, I don't know if it will work.

[shareef59]

@Craney

Suggestion by likuidkewl, is obviously the way to go OR you can always delete the present partions, format, install win98se and then upgrade to win2k.

Good luck!

[shareef59]

Craney, on Dec 28 2003, 07:40 PM, said:

Proceed with the install. Install Windows 2000 to a different partition than XP is installed in.

Can't I just format that from the prompt, then put 2000 on?

Wouldnt that cause you to have both OS on system?

[likuidkewl]

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QUOTE (Craney @ Dec 28 2003, 07:40 PM)

Proceed with the install. Install Windows 2000 to a different partition than XP is installed in.

Can't I just format that from the prompt, then put 2000 on? 


Wouldnt that cause you to have both OS on system?

See here:

likuidkewl, on Dec 28 2003, 05:34 PM, said:

//**Edit**//
Since you don't want XP, stop at step 4, eventhough it is a safer way to do it, you can reformat the whole partition in the setup wizard and then it will erase the entire disk so no more winXP only 2000.  I do recommend following the guide just incase you need some files off of your XP partiton.

[gunsmokingman]

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QUOTE (Craney @ Dec 28 2003, 07:40 PM)

Proceed with the install. Install Windows 2000 to a different partition than XP is installed in.

Can't I just format that from the prompt, then put 2000 on? 


Wouldnt that cause you to have both OS on system?

Not if you Update Win98 to W2K you would not have a dual boot system.
GSM