If I had my druthers, I would always make a clean install of any operating system onto a clean disk, rather than perform an upgrade.
There are two considerations, however, that you need to be aware of.
First of all, there may be software such as Microsoft Office that you are licensed to use on your system. If you try to install it
on a clean install, it may tell you that your license has already been used, and you may not do it. You might be able to get the
software vendors to approve your software on your upgraded system, but it is iffy. A computer that goes back to 2000 may not have
any licensing problems. It was with XP that these things started getting nasty, I think, but I never used 2000. Norton anti-virus
is particularly difficult to manage.
The second issue is that you will need to transfer stuff from your old disk to your new installation. This may or may not be tricky
depending on what you have on your old disk that you need to keep. In any case, unless you have two hard drives, you will have to
think about what software you need to save and back it up somewhere.
If these will not be a problem, then a clean install is the way to go.
Dean Kukral
PS: You didn't ask, but remember that Windows 7 is out in beta form and is expected to be released in the relatively near future.
7 is said to be vastly improved over Vista (not a great accomplishment!!), and it might be worth the wait until it is released.
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Ekkerman
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] upgrade from 2K to XPpro??
Hi Al,
I know you've already got some answers on this,but I'll try and give you a somewhat
different slant on this.It'll be also more extensive - 1- or 2 line answers don't
tell the whole story ;)
To start with - this is from the "horse's mouth " How to install or upgrade to
Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316941
" Note Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 Professional can only be upgraded to Windows XP
Professional. You cannot upgrade Windows 2000 to Windows XP Home."
1.Upgrade > While it can be done,in general it is better to do a fresh install.
Reason: While a lot of System drivers are compatible with XP and even system hardware
components often have combined Win 2K and XP drivers, some do not and are
specifically for XP.
There are also other files that would be redundant on XP ,but are not deleted in the
upgrade.Others are not available in XP,but would be useful nonetheless.They can be
installed later though.
My advice: Do a system inventory.
Find the latest drivers for your Motherboard,Video card,Audio,modems and any other
hardware device.Check for BIOS updates.A lot are done via the website of the Mobo
manufacturer.Others via the specific hardware manufacturer.
Put them in respective folders and burn to CD.
You may well have the original driver CD,but those drivers will be outdated for the
most part.
XP will have some drivers,but again, they most likely will be outdated as well,
so use your own collection to install the required drivers specific to your hardware.
You install this after you have installed XP.
Depending on your XP setup CD,you'll need to do some updates.
The range of XP CDs goes from XP no SP, to XP SP1,XP SP2 and XP SP3.
If you have the older version,you'd be advised to create the latest version with SP3
integrated and use that for subsequent re-installs or do this in advance on another
machine and use it for the fresh install you're planning now.The method you use for
that is so-called slipstreaming.More on this if needed.
With proper preparation,you shouldn't have much of a problem.
Peter E.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [PCSOFT] upgrade from 2K to XPpro??
From: alan smith <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: 07-Jun-2009 11:38:56 PM
Some time ago there was a post saying that a person can upgrade Win2K to
XPpro but not XPhome. Has anyone done it and were there any problems??
I've been on 2K for 5 or 6 years, but I find that most programs I want are okay for XP
and Vista, but not 2K. Thank you for all suggestions, Al Smith
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