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Upgrading from Win2K Pro to Server

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by tejota

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My home pc is Win 2K Pro and I would like to know if there would be any problem upgrading it to server. Rather than install another computer with server for my network, I want to upgrade my desktop at home so I can plug in my laptop which is running Pro into the network I'm creating. Will Server do anythign to the data or programs I have running or will it be seamless like upgrading 98 to Pro?

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by ronv1316

you cannnot upgrade pro to server because server is not an upgrade... you would need to partition your current harddrive using partition magic to install win2k server on the newly created partition.

by ryder007

Do you really need to have server running on a machine, for just your laptop, of course I am assuming your going to be doing just simple file sharing between your computers, with no security risks. I would just leave both comps using w2k and a peer to peer setup, but if you want to setup w2k srv the 1st answer is very much correct.

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