Re: Downgrade from Windows XP to 2000 Pro

Maybe he could format a drive in Win2000 pro, put it in an enclosure, then
copy it from his XP box to the external HDD.

"Yves Leclerc" <yvesleclercNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> This does not seem to be possible since XP will automatically upgrade the
> NTFS
> file system to its version. You may have to "network" a second PC onto
> your
> system and copy the files over to this second PCs before do the
> "downgrade".
>
>
> On 25/11/2005 dubina@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>Yes, but for example I cannot use FAT32 partition to copy data, since
>>there are large (over 4 GB) files. So only way is perhaps copy data to
>>NTFS 3.0 partition from WinXP directly and then access it from Win2K.
>>
>>Anton.
>>
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> Y.
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