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Changing Win ME to Win 2000 Pro

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by parvus1202 1 view

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I am into Animation and Graphic design workshop, so I got a new PCU but with Win ME pre-installed. I cannot use some grphic software with this OS. How can I remove it totally from my computer and install a new program of Win 2000 Pro??

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by graham

If you have a copy of win2000 you can either upgrade your win me or if you know you have all the drivers etc for your pc format the drive and install win 2000 fresh. Some people will dual boot their machine i.e have both os's on their system

by vidhelp

There are a few things you should do before starting the upgrade. First, make sure the hard drive is in good shape by running a thorough scandisk. Then defrag the drive. If you are using one fixed disk, then you should partition it (partition magic) so that Win2K can be installed in it's own volume or partition. Also, be prepared to recover if things go wrong; make a set of startup discs for Win2K (4 I believe...) and print out the instructions for removing Win2K "surgically" if necessary.Usually, the startup discs can repair minor problems like corrupt or missing boot files. I lost my ntloader file, and didn't know how to use the startup discs to repair it, so I ended up removing the NT files myself and reverting to Win98SE; workedgood too!

by cgi¤001

As been said, there are several options:
1.Multiboot... is there any reason you want to keep ME? If not... forget multiboot.
2.Upgrade. Only if you have plenty of data, which you can NOT, back up, plenty of applications installed... If so, clean up the temporary files b4 scandisk/defrag...
3. Clean installation *highly recommended*
Reformat harddisk, install Win2Kpro, using NTFS. Give a party, for getting rid of ME.

by lightningrod4

I converted 2 systems using a Clean Install without any major problems. On one system and older ATI 3D Stealth card was no longer supported by either ATI or Windows. Plan to check the HCL list before you jump in

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