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jgberkeley
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Username: Jgberkeley
Post Number: 3448
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 4, 2004 - 6:56 pm: |     |
Problem: The company I last worked at loaded Win 2000 Pro on MY personal Laptop. I don't own the license, they do, and I can manage sections of it as I am locked out or what not.
Solution: I purchased a Win XP Home license and I am ready to load.
Problem: the auto loaders do not support Win 2000 Pro to Win XP Home.
No Fear: I want to nuke everything on the hard drive anyway.
Plan: This is what I think I want to do.
1. Format the hard drive, Low level.
2. Fdisk to set up the logical drive.
3. Load Win XP Home from a CD boot.
Ah, any suggestions before I click away?
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic. |
monster
Citizen
Username: Monster
Post Number: 104
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 4, 2004 - 9:33 pm: | |
boot off of the XP disc and follow the steps for a clean install no reason to do step 1 or 2 beforhand, you will be doing this as part of the XP install.
Just format over the top of everything and partition as you see fit.
Of course it's probably too late for me to chime in, seeing as how you posted this two & a half hours ago.
How did it go... |
bets
Citizen
Username: Bets
Post Number: 493
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 4, 2004 - 9:57 pm: | |
Shoot. Wrong thread. |
jgberkeley
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Username: Jgberkeley
Post Number: 3449
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 4, 2004 - 10:53 pm: | |
Chime in I have not done it yet. I'm holding for the advice of the wizzards.
Using your idea I just booted off the CD, in a quick look I did not see a clean load option. I did get down a path that looked to allow me to load XP but warned that I would be loading an Op system in the same partition of another Op, and that they did not recommend that path.
I stopped.
Humm, Any thoughts?
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic. |
monster
Citizen
Username: Monster
Post Number: 108
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, February 5, 2004 - 12:10 am: | |
ok, hear are a couple of sites that have step by step instructions, complete with screen captures.
http://www.windowsreinstall.com/winxphome/installxpwindowsparallel/part1.htm
and The MS official install guide,
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/howto/gettingstarted/guide/default .asp
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1435&page=1
these are much better than I could type up at this time of night. |
Tom Reingold
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 2005
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, February 5, 2004 - 11:34 am: | |
George, did you get an upgrade license or a full license. There's a price difference. I wonder if it will let you do this. Heck, it probably will.
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
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jgberkeley
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Username: Jgberkeley
Post Number: 3451
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 5, 2004 - 7:24 pm: | |
I bought a full license. XP Home over Win 2000 Pro is not supported in any form.
I'm working on of the install guides listed above.
I'll be back.
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic. |
monster
Citizen
Username: Monster
Post Number: 112
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, February 5, 2004 - 8:15 pm: | |
"I'll be back"
famous last words |
jgberkeley
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Username: Jgberkeley
Post Number: 3452
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 5, 2004 - 9:04 pm: | |
I followed the step. The system is up and running on XP Home.
But, not exactly the way I was hoping.
A boot, I have the old dual boot options, into XP Home or Win 2000 Pro. The default is XP Home.
I booted into XP and loaded the first of my applications, Quicken. During the load Quicken found old data files.
I looked around with explorer and at first did not see anything in My Documents.
Ah, but then I look at C: I found all the files from when I used the Laptop running Win 2000 Pro.
Programs that I since loaded are intermingled with programs loaded from the Win 2000 Pro days. I'm finding a mix of old and new, unwanted and used.
Any thoughts? Is there a way I can just remove all of Win 2000 Pro?
That is why I was thinking of Format, Fdisk and boot load.
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic. |
Dave
Citizen
Username: Dave
Post Number: 6327
Registered: 4-1998
| | Posted on Thursday, February 5, 2004 - 9:33 pm: | |
Format/Fdisk is your best bet. Just keep in mind MS only permits you a few chances to install the software, after which you will have to contact them by phone and get permission to do reinstalls. |
monster
Citizen
Username: Monster
Post Number: 114
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, February 5, 2004 - 10:22 pm: | |
if you can't get it going by tomorrow, shoot may an email and I'll be more than happy to see what I can do.
I have nothing else planned, just hanging at home with my son. |
jgberkeley
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Username: Jgberkeley
Post Number: 3453
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 6, 2004 - 8:36 am: | |
Update, I've decided to format and start from a Zero base.
From cmd I'm not able to format. Told that the volume is mounted.
I'm off to the MS site to look for suggestions.
I'd take any from here as well.
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic. |
Dave
Citizen
Username: Dave
Post Number: 6333
Registered: 4-1998
| | Posted on Friday, February 6, 2004 - 8:42 am: | |
Maybe make a floppy boot disk, boot from that, then try to format the drive? |
jgberkeley
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Username: Jgberkeley
Post Number: 3454
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 6, 2004 - 11:59 am: | |
Going backward. The boot disk, when booted up does not have the commands to support format.
I have the Win 2000 Pro install floppies and checked them. Format commands not supported.
Bummer. looking.
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic. |
Dave
Citizen
Username: Dave
Post Number: 6337
Registered: 4-1998
| | Posted on Friday, February 6, 2004 - 12:13 pm: | |
Can you make a boot disk like this:
format a:/s
Then copy fdisk and format commands from your dos file onto it. That's how my fuzzy memory recalls doing it. |
jgberkeley
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Username: Jgberkeley
Post Number: 3456
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 8, 2004 - 1:32 am: | |
Wow, That was not easy, and none of the directions were that clear or correct.
But, thanx for all the help, and the suggestions did add to the learning process and gave a general path to follow.
I hope that I never have to do that again.
Thanx all,
George
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Tom Reingold
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 2048
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, February 9, 2004 - 12:35 pm: | |
Glad it worked out in the end. Yeah, these things are often more complicated than you expect.
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
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