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Windows ME over 2000?

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by blacksun

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ok, here goes. can you install Windows ME over WIN2000? If yes well it work if you converted your hard drive over to NTFS?

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by parbo

Nope this wont work. If you install WinME it will install it as an additional OS, Dual Boot). Now WinME is not able to read/write NTFS so it will not be able to write to the disk.

by russ werner

Win ME is based on Win95/98 technology. Win 2000 is based on the NT technology. These two technologies are not compatible. You can not load over top of ME with 2000, but will be doing a complete install.
Which is better anyhows, many problems are eliminated by means of a clean install!!!

by blaine moore

You can install WinME for a dual boot, but you'd best set up a partition and format it in fat32 so that you can read/write to it from winME. win2k will work fine.

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