Re: upgrade problem win ME to win 2000


"Fredrik Er" <FredrikEr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| HI!
|
| I cant uppgrade with the win 2000 CD from win ME. I upg.DLL file that
has
| something to do with win 95 is missing. How can I uppgrade? Microsoft
| troubleshooting saying you must do it clicking winnt32.exe doesnt
work.
|
| Thanks for help.

You can't upgrade from a share-level operating system to Window 2000 ( a
user-level OS ). Besides, WinME was created after Windows 2000. So
basicly Windows 2000 isn't even aware that WinME was ever available (and
therefore knows nothing about it).

In most cases where an upgrade path is available, because of the
resulting bugs and the need to support those bugs, a clean install is
the preferred way to go. The exception is in a wide corporate deployment
within a controlled environment. In your case, consider the result of
upgrading to a 32 bit, unicode OS when you have 16 bit applications and
tools without unicode support still left on the system. Thats the
ultimate nightmare.

And please, don't respond that "well, it worked for me!". Its
physically impossible to carry out that procedure. The Windows 2000
installation will not let you. Never, ever. The only option available is
a clean installation. Additionally, a Windows 2000 installation is
capable of formatting a drive in 4K clusters (the default), a
requirement for W2K ntfs compression. Converted file systems do not
satisfy that requirement.

Perform a clean installation after verifying hardware and software
compatibility requirements (or pay a tech to do it for you).


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