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Windows 3.1 upgrade to Windows 2000

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by crosspower Jun 5, 2002 last reply Jun 19, 2002

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Can you install an upgrade from Windows 3.1 to Windows 2000? Reasons why?

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by gigelul Jun 5, 2002

-You can't find on market an upgrade kit from Win3.1 to Win2000.
-You can install a full product on a seperate partition (or HDD)
-Win2000 need more resources (HDD, memory, processor) than Win3.1. Check for minimum requirements.
-Old computers (if this is the case) can have hardware compatibility problems. Also you can have a very slow performance.

by crosspower Jun 5, 2002

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by crosspower Jun 5, 2002

If all hardware requirements for windows 2000 are met can you upgrade from windows 3.1

by alpha-male Jun 6, 2002

Per Microsoft, this is not possible.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/professional/howtobuy/upgrading/path/default.asp

Remove any spaces from the above URL.

In all honesty, considering all the limitation of 3.1 I would do a fresh install anyway. You can port your data over, but the old apps will be quite suspect. Some *may* work...but I'd look for current alternatives.

I'm sure this isn't what you want to hear, but I hope it helps. Good Luck!

by crosspower Jun 19, 2002

I found the answer and it is No you can't as they are two completed different operating systems. Windows 3.1 is MS-DOS based. You can only upgrade Windows 2000 from a NT environment. Thanks for your input