Re: upgrade problem win ME to win 2000

The basic thrust of your reply ("You cannot convert from WinME
to Win2000") is entirely correct. However, your response contains several
explicit claims that are incorrect. See below.


"Peter_Julian" <pj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "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 ).
*** Win98 is what you call a "sharel-level OS". A conversion from Win98 to
*** Win2000 is supported by Microsoft.

> 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.
*** Just because you state this myth three times in the strongest
*** possible terms does not turn it into a fact. I tried to convert
*** a WinME installation to Win2000 a moment ago. I had no
*** problem with the conversion and I was able to boot up the
*** "converted" version of Win2000 to the desktop and test
*** network connectivity (although I don't expect the result to
*** be of any use).

> 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.
*** Again I converted a 12 GByt FAT32 partition to NTFS.
*** I then set the compression flag. It worked just fine.

> Perform a clean installation after verifying hardware and software
> compatibility requirements (or pay a tech to do it for you).
*** Indeed, this is the only reasonable way to go. Anything
*** else would result in a flawed system.


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