Add WinMe to existing Win2K system?

Can I do it? I have plenty of experience with WME/W2K dual boot systems, but
have never tried to do this before.

My Win2K is on the C: drive.

All data is on another physical drive, F:.

Ideally I would like to move Win2K to D: and install WinME on C:.

What say ye, O Windows gurus?

Walterius
Retired software development engineer
Fort Lauderdale

It ain't gonna happen. You cannot move Windows 2000 the another drive,
it has to stay on the drive on which it was installed. There are too
many pitfalls and the level of expertize required to move Windows 2000
to a different drive is near the guru level, and even they don't usually
attempt moves like that. You will have to Install Windows 2000 to the
new location for your plan to work.

You could however install Windows ME to the second hard drive, without
touching your Windows 2000 installation and have both operating systems
on their own C drive. This is a relatively simple thing to do, you just
need a third party boot manager like XOSL or BootItNG to do it.

John

Walter H Donavan wrote:

Can I do it? I have plenty of experience with WME/W2K dual boot systems, but
have never tried to do this before.

My Win2K is on the C: drive.

All data is on another physical drive, F:.

Ideally I would like to move Win2K to D: and install WinME on C:.

What say ye, O Windows gurus?

Walterius
Retired software development engineer
Fort Lauderdale

In theory it's possible. In reality there's a good chance you're going to
screw up your ability to start Windows 2000, or possibly delete the wrong
partition and wind up losing data.

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"Walter H Donavan" wrote in message
...
Can I do it? I have plenty of experience with WME/W2K dual boot systems,
but
have never tried to do this before.

My Win2K is on the C: drive.

All data is on another physical drive, F:.

Ideally I would like to move Win2K to D: and install WinME on C:.

What say ye, O Windows gurus?

Walterius
Retired software development engineer
Fort Lauderdale

John had the right idea, Walter and Personally I would persue it.
On the other hand, you may have a specific reason to do it your way, but
that's not advisable, as Richard already pointed out.
Good luck, whatever you decide.

Harry.


"Walter H Donavan" wrote in message
...
Can I do it? I have plenty of experience with WME/W2K dual boot systems,
but
have never tried to do this before.

My Win2K is on the C: drive.

All data is on another physical drive, F:.

Ideally I would like to move Win2K to D: and install WinME on C:.

What say ye, O Windows gurus?

Walterius
Retired software development engineer
Fort Lauderdale

I suspected it was impossible. Thanks for your help.

I have a second, related question, though:

Can I use the Windows ME defrag program on Win2000? It's far faster. If so,
where is it on the WMW CD?

Thanks again.
"webster72n" wrote in message
...

John had the right idea, Walter and Personally I would persue it.
On the other hand, you may have a specific reason to do it your way, but
that's not advisable, as Richard already pointed out.
Good luck, whatever you decide.

Harry.


"Walter H Donavan" wrote in message
...
Can I do it? I have plenty of experience with WME/W2K dual boot systems,
but
have never tried to do this before.

My Win2K is on the C: drive.

All data is on another physical drive, F:.

Ideally I would like to move Win2K to D: and install WinME on C:.

What say ye, O Windows gurus?

Walterius
Retired software development engineer
Fort Lauderdale

IMHO : No, but better wait for a more detailed explanation from one of the
"Masterminds".

Harry.


"Walter H Donavan" wrote in message
...
I suspected it was impossible. Thanks for your help.

I have a second, related question, though:

Can I use the Windows ME defrag program on Win2000? It's far faster. If
so,
where is it on the WMW CD?

Thanks again.
"webster72n" wrote in message
...

John had the right idea, Walter and Personally I would persue it.
On the other hand, you may have a specific reason to do it your way, but
that's not advisable, as Richard already pointed out.
Good luck, whatever you decide.

Harry.


"Walter H Donavan" wrote in message
...
Can I do it? I have plenty of experience with WME/W2K dual boot
systems,
but
have never tried to do this before.

My Win2K is on the C: drive.

All data is on another physical drive, F:.

Ideally I would like to move Win2K to D: and install WinME on C:.

What say ye, O Windows gurus?

Walterius
Retired software development engineer
Fort Lauderdale

Win ME's defrag won't work on an NTFS partition - and I doubt it would work
properly within a Win NT environment.
You run the risk of corrupting the whole drive!

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
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"Walter H Donavan" wrote in message
...
I suspected it was impossible. Thanks for your help.

I have a second, related question, though:

Can I use the Windows ME defrag program on Win2000? It's far faster. If
so,
where is it on the WMW CD?

Thanks again.
"webster72n" wrote in message
...

John had the right idea, Walter and Personally I would persue it.
On the other hand, you may have a specific reason to do it your way, but
that's not advisable, as Richard already pointed out.
Good luck, whatever you decide.

Harry.


"Walter H Donavan" wrote in message
...
Can I do it? I have plenty of experience with WME/W2K dual boot
systems,
but
have never tried to do this before.

My Win2K is on the C: drive.

All data is on another physical drive, F:.

Ideally I would like to move Win2K to D: and install WinME on C:.

What say ye, O Windows gurus?

Walterius
Retired software development engineer
Fort Lauderdale

Try Diskeeper Lite, a link to it he
http://forums.tomcoyote.org/index.php?showtopic=38002

And pagedefrag by Sysinternal is a nifty little thing that you should
run at least once on any NT system
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PageDefrag.html

John

Walter H Donavan wrote:

I suspected it was impossible. Thanks for your help.

I have a second, related question, though:

Can I use the Windows ME defrag program on Win2000? It's far faster. If so,
where is it on the WMW CD?

Thanks again.
"webster72n" wrote in message
...

John had the right idea, Walter and Personally I would persue it.
On the other hand, you may have a specific reason to do it your way, but
that's not advisable, as Richard already pointed out.
Good luck, whatever you decide.

Harry.


"Walter H Donavan" wrote in message
...

Can I do it? I have plenty of experience with WME/W2K dual boot systems,

but

have never tried to do this before.

My Win2K is on the C: drive.

All data is on another physical drive, F:.

Ideally I would like to move Win2K to D: and install WinME on C:.

What say ye, O Windows gurus?

Walterius
Retired software development engineer
Fort Lauderdale

Sorry, Noel. I forgot to mention I have used WME defrag on my Win2K systems
for years. I format them as FAT32 and have nary a problem. The WinME defrag
is zillions of times faster than the Win2K version. Of course, I have only
run it from WinME, which is why I asked if it would work if installed on
Win2K

"Noel Paton" wrote in message
...
Win ME's defrag won't work on an NTFS partition - and I doubt it would
work
properly within a Win NT environment.
You run the risk of corrupting the whole drive!

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm

http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's
"Walter H Donavan" wrote in message
...
I suspected it was impossible. Thanks for your help.

I have a second, related question, though:

Can I use the Windows ME defrag program on Win2000? It's far faster. If
so,
where is it on the WMW CD?

Thanks again.
"webster72n" wrote in message
...

John had the right idea, Walter and Personally I would persue it.
On the other hand, you may have a specific reason to do it your way,
but
that's not advisable, as Richard already pointed out.
Good luck, whatever you decide.

Harry.


"Walter H Donavan" wrote in message
...
Can I do it? I have plenty of experience with WME/W2K dual boot
systems,
but
have never tried to do this before.

My Win2K is on the C: drive.

All data is on another physical drive, F:.

Ideally I would like to move Win2K to D: and install WinME on C:.

What say ye, O Windows gurus?

Walterius
Retired software development engineer
Fort Lauderdale

running an external defraggger on a drive is a pointless exercise

One of the things that defragging is supposed to do is to order the stored
programs so that they load faster. to do this, Windows creates a history of
when programs are loaded, and uses that to recalculate optimised locations
on the drive - the defrag then places the files in these location.
If the defragger is external to the OS (as when you run ME's defragger on a
W2K OS partition) then it doesn't know anything about this optimisation, and
will simply put the programs as close together as possible, in any order
(which is why it's so fast). the resulting mess may well be very slow to
load, as the HD has to jump around a lot during the loading of the OS, and
programs therein.

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
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http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

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"Walter H Donavan" wrote in message
...
Sorry, Noel. I forgot to mention I have used WME defrag on my Win2K
systems
for years. I format them as FAT32 and have nary a problem. The WinME
defrag
is zillions of times faster than the Win2K version. Of course, I have only
run it from WinME, which is why I asked if it would work if installed on
Win2K

"Noel Paton" wrote in message
...
Win ME's defrag won't work on an NTFS partition - and I doubt it would
work
properly within a Win NT environment.
You run the risk of corrupting the whole drive!

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm

http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's
"Walter H Donavan" wrote in message
...
I suspected it was impossible. Thanks for your help.

I have a second, related question, though:

Can I use the Windows ME defrag program on Win2000? It's far faster. If
so,
where is it on the WMW CD?

Thanks again.
"webster72n" wrote in message
...

John had the right idea, Walter and Personally I would persue it.
On the other hand, you may have a specific reason to do it your way,
but
that's not advisable, as Richard already pointed out.
Good luck, whatever you decide.

Harry.


"Walter H Donavan" wrote in message
...
Can I do it? I have plenty of experience with WME/W2K dual boot
systems,
but
have never tried to do this before.

My Win2K is on the C: drive.

All data is on another physical drive, F:.

Ideally I would like to move Win2K to D: and install WinME on C:.

What say ye, O Windows gurus?

Walterius
Retired software development engineer
Fort Lauderdale