From Windows 2000 to Windows XP

It depends on the current state of your 2000 installation and the availability of software that is installed on the machine. Being in a corporate environment, I ALWAYS back up the data from the hard disk, do a full format and install the OS from scratch as I know I have all the original software CDs to reinstall afterwards. It makes troubleshooting a lot easier down the road. Let me know how you get on!

I myself did an upgrade from Win2k Pro Laptop P233, with 128mb ram (Dell Latitude) to XP Pro, and seems to be working fine,I am actually surprised all my programs are working great, and I did not have to reinstall anything, it was seemless and done over my network. Only one thing though, XP on a 233 runs very slow (under recommendation for hardware), but even so I would have to agree with the first answer, but if your not able to do that, upgradeing doesn't seem to bad. The upgrade didn't askfor files or version conflicts, it just installed right over the top of my Windows 2000 Pro OS (did have admin rights to the machine).

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