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02-10-2004, 02:34 PM
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XP Home Over 2000 PRO??
Appreciate some assistance.
Have a friend who has (or maybe had??) a PC with Windows 2000 PRO installed on it. His son decided to take a retail Windows XP Home CD (Spanish version), and install it instead, right over W2000PRO. The PC worked OK for a few hours, until it was shut down. Now, the PC will not start and keeps asking for a W2000PRO CD which got lost in a move. What kind of a mess is he in? Any suggestions on how to rescue him? Thanks for the help. |
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02-10-2004, 03:03 PM
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Was the orginal Win2k install a NTFS partition? XP Home is FAT and will have problems installing over a Win2k NTFS partition.
Could always wipe everything out and install a fresh XP Home. |
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02-10-2004, 03:37 PM
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If he did a install over 2000 with NTFS partitions, the XP partition will be NTFS. Chas
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02-10-2004, 04:43 PM
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I dont think you can "upgrade" win2k to xp "home" edition.
Nope! http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/h...ing/matrix.asp Installin "beside" it, ya. |
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02-12-2004, 05:04 PM
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Thanks for the info.
Will pass it on. |
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