upgrading to windows 2000

[kdog316]

I was wondering if i upgrade to Microsoft Windows 2000 Proffessional from Microsoft ME will it format my hard drive

[Anarchos]

Nope.

[kdog316]

thx now i dont have to go through all the trouble of backing up

[mjames]

You should backup anyway - whether you are formatting or not. You never know when a hard drive crash is coming.

You should partition your hard drive and have a dual boot of ME and 2K.

[Aidan Bahta]

You can't upgrade from Windows Millenium to 2000. I remember I asked this question maybe half a year ago here, and everyone thought so. Then I tried it, and it didn't work. I searched for a while at microsoft.com and found out that it doesn't work.

You can clean install it to another drive/partition, however, and that works perfectly fine. That way, you can dual-boot.

As Marc James said, might as well back up anyway.

[kdog316]

i just did this past monday so far so good except minor problems so i guess microsfot was wrong and i didnt do a clean install i did the top choive and i converted my files to ntfs

[mkaufman]

Aidan - Yes, you can.

I have done it..

[Aidan Bahta]

Are you sure? I remember trying several things to get it to work. Perhaps there was an update that lets you do so? I tried upgrading in December I believe, and it didn't work.

[Aidan Bahta]

I found this:

http://support.microsoft.com/support...SRCH&SPR=WINME

I remember getting a message along the lines of:

"The Operating System you are trying to install is older than the one you currently have. Installer will not continue"

Did you have to do anything special, Matt?

[Wedge231]

Originally posted by mjames
You should backup anyway - whether you are formatting or not. You never know when a hard drive crash is coming.

You should partition your hard drive and have a dual boot of ME and 2K.

I did this. Works fine with the two OS's. You just have to get some drivers and stuff afterwards.