Windows me to Windows 2000
yes i did, that was part of the setup... although the hard
disk is partioned, so only C drive is ntfs while D drive is still fat32 now what? thanks -----Original Message----- Did you convert to NTFS ? If not just boot using a startup floppy and copy your data to another disk or drive. HTH MP "ms" wrote in message ... hi rick Sorry i made a mistake about what happens. Actually it boots from hard disk and does the loop as mentioned previously. But after changing the boot order to start up from the win 2000 CD it goes to setup with option of clean install of 2000 or repair of previous installation. I tried repairing it which did nothing at all. no I havent created an emergency boot disk ...whick isnt really hard to do?? or is it? Anyways my first priority is saving all my data if possible, which is why im delaying the inevitable formatting and clean install. Thanks . |
Windows me to Windows 2000
ms wrote:
yes i did, that was part of the setup... although the hard disk is partioned, so only C drive is ntfs while D drive is still fat32 You've got a D: partition? that's great!! All you have to do is find a booting floppy that can see NTFS, copy your personal stuff over to D:, then wipe C: clean (reformat) and do a clean install of Win2K (though you will need an original Microsoft WinME CD or Win98SE(?) to verify that you have a "previous OS"... not a 3rd party Recovery CD). http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm About halfway down the page there's a link for "NTFS Bootdisk" (A Win9x bootdisk with an NTFS reading utility on it) that seems to be what you need at this point. Rick now what? thanks -----Original Message----- Did you convert to NTFS ? If not just boot using a startup floppy and copy your data to another disk or drive. HTH MP "ms" wrote in message .. . hi rick Sorry i made a mistake about what happens. Actually it boots from hard disk and does the loop as mentioned previously. But after changing the boot order to start up from the win 2000 CD it goes to setup with option of clean install of 2000 or repair of previous installation. I tried repairing it which did nothing at all. no I havent created an emergency boot disk ...whick isnt really hard to do?? or is it? Anyways my first priority is saving all my data if possible, which is why im delaying the inevitable formatting and clean install. Thanks . |
Windows me to Windows 2000
thanks a lot rick
just read your post, was offline for a few days during which i installed win 2000 on the d partition without changing the file system, ie..win 2000 on fat32, seems fine can see all my stuff on c drive and now whenever it boots sees both win 2000 as separate OS's. anyways now all i want to do is to remove the previous incomplete win 200 installation and i will be fine Thanks a lot for your advice Ms -----Original Message----- ms wrote: yes i did, that was part of the setup... although the hard disk is partioned, so only C drive is ntfs while D drive is still fat32 You've got a D: partition? that's great!! All you have to do is find a booting floppy that can see NTFS, copy your personal stuff over to D:, then wipe C: clean (reformat) and do a clean install of Win2K (though you will need an original Microsoft WinME CD or Win98SE(?) to verify that you have a "previous OS"... not a 3rd party Recovery CD). http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm About halfway down the page there's a link for "NTFS Bootdisk" (A Win9x bootdisk with an NTFS reading utility on it) that seems to be what you need at this point. Rick now what? thanks -----Original Message----- Did you convert to NTFS ? If not just boot using a startup floppy and copy your data to another disk or drive. HTH MP "ms" wrote in message . .. hi rick Sorry i made a mistake about what happens. Actually it boots from hard disk and does the loop as mentioned previously. But after changing the boot order to start up from the win 2000 CD it goes to setup with option of clean install of 2000 or repair of previous installation. I tried repairing it which did nothing at all. no I havent created an emergency boot disk ...whick isnt really hard to do?? or is it? Anyways my first priority is saving all my data if possible, which is why im delaying the inevitable formatting and clean install. Thanks . . |
Windows me to Windows 2000
ms wrote:
thanks a lot rick just read your post, was offline for a few days during which i installed win 2000 on the d partition without changing the file system, ie..win 2000 on fat32, seems fine can see all my stuff on c drive and now whenever it boots sees both win 2000 as separate OS's. anyways now all i want to do is to remove the previous incomplete win 200 installation and i will be fine Thanks a lot for your advice :) Well, somebody will probably make use of it (and blame me when it doesn't work) Rick Ms -----Original Message----- ms wrote: yes i did, that was part of the setup... although the hard disk is partioned, so only C drive is ntfs while D drive is still fat32 You've got a D: partition? that's great!! All you have to do is find a booting floppy that can see NTFS, copy your personal stuff over to D:, then wipe C: clean (reformat) and do a clean install of Win2K (though you will need an original Microsoft WinME CD or Win98SE(?) to verify that you have a "previous OS"... not a 3rd party Recovery CD). http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm About halfway down the page there's a link for "NTFS Bootdisk" (A Win9x bootdisk with an NTFS reading utility on it) that seems to be what you need at this point. Rick now what? thanks -----Original Message----- Did you convert to NTFS ? If not just boot using a startup floppy and copy your data to another disk or drive. HTH MP "ms" wrote in message .. . hi rick Sorry i made a mistake about what happens. Actually it boots from hard disk and does the loop as mentioned previously. But after changing the boot order to start up from the win 2000 CD it goes to setup with option of clean install of 2000 or repair of previous installation. I tried repairing it which did nothing at all. no I havent created an emergency boot disk ...whick isnt really hard to do?? or is it? Anyways my first priority is saving all my data if possible, which is why im delaying the inevitable formatting and clean install. Thanks . . |
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