Re: adding a partition

SP4 isn't the problem. Your slipstreamed media is the issue. It's not
possible to do an in-place upgrade with slipstreamed media. Do the parallel
install, recover your data then do the clean install.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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"Luke" wrote:
| Can't a guy change his mind...<GRIN> It is true that what I said but that
| was before Pegasus(MVP) said "Just re-install Win2000, either in the same
| folder as the failed installation (if you're happy to overwrite it) or in
a
| different
| folder. You don't need a new partition."
|
| I then asked how to create this so-called folder and you pointed me to the
| possibility at
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;266465.
| Bob replied on 12/30/05 with good info also about the possibility also.
|
| At that point I thought that by simply adding a folder would allow me to
| save/back up files to it, and then format c:\ and reinstall the OS.
|
| So if I have to, I will format C:\, but not before exhausting all options
to
| create a folder that won't get wiped out on format.
|
| However SP4 is apparently standing in the way of me using my setup disk at
| all.
| When I put the cd in and boot, it only gives me one option "Choose a
| Profile" to load, of which there is only one "Profile1". If I put in the
cd
| after windows is up I get the message "Win2K PRO CD will not proceed
because
| Service Pack 3 is older than the current service pack 4".
|
| That is why I asked about uninstalling SP4 in hopes of using the cd again.
| If you say it won't do any good, then it just confused me as to why all
the
| talk earlier.
|
| I'm just nervous about formating c:\ because it's a business computer and
| backup's are in pieces because of the large file size. The past has
proven,
| to me at least, that those split backups don't always restore like they
| should.
| Does that make since.


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