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Upgrade NT to 2000 Server Vs. Clean Install
If you upgrade, you will live in a world of hurt. Always go with the clean install unless you have absolutely no other alternative. Tom -- Thomas W Shinder MD MCSE MCT TACteam -- Trainers, Authors, Consultants www.shinder.net www.swynk.com/friends/shinder "Tom Watson" <t...@mindspring.com> wrote in message

upgrade or clean install of 2000 ?
Dwarf Dw...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general Hi Kor, You cannot carry out an upgrade from the Business version to one of the Home editions or vice-versa. To do that would necessitate a clean install. If you wish to clean install Vista using upgrade media, please refer to my post

Unable to complete upgrade process
My understanding is that you can only do a 'clean' install with an XP Home upgrade if you have the original ME CD which XP Home setup will ask for during the installation, if it does not detect ME already installed on my HD. Does this mean I can only go down this route if I purchase a 'full' ver. of XP Home or when

Clean install using SBS 2000 upgrade w/o installing SBS 4.5 ...
Will we be able to put RC1 on a CD-ROM and do a clean install? (I selected the download only option for the preview program) Or will I be able to do clean install from my HD? And, am I hearing false rumors about the bad upgrades from ME to XP? I am trying to be prepared here. Thanks. -- --ESE--

Clean Install Upgrade home premium from xp media center - partion
Hi: I'm trying to make up my mind whether to do a clean install of XP or upgrade my Win2K box. I have quite a few applications that I'm loathe to re-install, and a lot of data that I'd just as soon not move to another drive. I have an AMD Athlon T-bird 1.7 with 1G of RAM on an Asus A7M266 Motherboard.

loading FP 2000 upgrade on clean install XP
Bob I bire...@yahoo.com microsoft public windowsxp general You are confusing Upgrading with a Clean install from an Upgrade version. Please read the following quote from: http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/winvista_03.asp Understanding your installation choices How you acquire Windows Vista play a large part in

Clean install with Dell XP upgrade disks?
Regards, Bert [MS-MVP DTS] b...@NSmvps.org Remove NS to reply http://members.home.com/dts-l/ "William W Taylor" <wwt...@MailAndNews.com> wrote I was told by a salesperson ...you can do a clean install from a 'upgrade disk' without using the the 'full version disk' for a blank hardrive....is that true?

Clean install ??
I recently did an upgrade from W98SE to W2K, partially to save all those settings. However, I am having some problems and am thinking of doing a clean install on another partition. Can I copy Documents and Settings from my upgraded W2K to my clean install to preserve those settings which were carried forward form

Upgrade Vs. Clean Install?
Guttapercha guttaper...@oceanfree.net comp sys mac system in article freeagent-0612020900020...@192.168.123.198, F. Hayek at freeag...@37.com wrote on 6/12/02 15:00: I recently got a G4 PowerMac with 10.1.x installed and 10.2 upgrade disks. Am I correct in assuming that I can't really do a "clean install" of 10.2

Upgrade or Clean Install (7.0 --> 2000 )?
If you remove it, and for some reason your backup fails, you will have no way of installing XP again or the subsequent Vista upgrade. You would be well advised to leave it be. It is doing no harm.. -- Mike Hall - MVP How to construct a good post.. http://dts-l.com/goodpost.htm How to use the Microsoft Product

!0.5 upgrade eller clean install?
PHONY: build build-mysql build-pgsql config-mysql config-pgsql clean install install-indep install-mysql install-pgsql install-agent build-agent .... + dbc_go zabbix-server-sqlite3 $@ +fi + +case "$1" in + failed-upgrade|abort-install|abort-upgrade|disappear|upgrade) + ;; + remove) + ;; + purge) + rm -fr

SBS 4.5 to SBS 2000 Upgrade
To do a clean install of the upgrade of 4.5 was impossible - you had to install sbs4.0 then follow it with the upgrade to 4.5. I want to upgrade (again!) to sbs2000 and will purchase the upgrade version (when its available in oz!) but I would like to do a clean install onto a new hdd. My question is obvious.

How do I make a clean install with XP upgrade?
Mick Murphy MickMur...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/68767-clean-install-upgrade-vista.html Brink link for clean install from upgrade disk. You can't boot an upgrade disk, and get it to install(thus, that error). You have to have vista running,

Me upgrade vs. clean install
It will not install "clean" or over any other system except Windows 98. The $90 retail CD in stores contains the entire Win98 Second Edition set, including Internet Explorer 5, Internet Connection Sharing, new drivers, all the new features ... and will install (upgrade) on any system that either has Windows (any

How often do you upgrade (clean install or not) your Linux ...
James Liles JLil...@newsguy.com alt windows98 On Sat, 8 Apr 2000 06:33:25 -0400, "R. Abraham" <rabra...@cis.ysu.edu> wrote: ->I recall reading some time ago that it's possible to do a clean install ->using the Win98 upgrade CD if you simply show it a Win3.x or Win95 disk ->during the install (setup) procedure.

Problem using GNOME apps in KDE
On the boot, I get to past the langauge selection, "Install Now" icon until I get to the two buttons, one for Install clean and the other for upgrade. The upgrade button is greyed out, and the help text is to boot from windows. I can do a clean install, but I lose the configuration that I've already got.

Cannot upgrade 2003 to 2008
Take my word for it, your *only* option is to Upgrade an installation that is first created from your Compaq CD. I wish it weren't so, but it is. The best you can do is install a clean setup using the Compaq, then uninstall whatever you can that you don't want, perform radical Registry cleansing, and eventually

Clean install
MyronH Myr...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general The problem comes in that the isn't an upgrade path from Premium to Business. This means you would have to do a clean install which will mean reinstalling all of your apps. Premium to Ultimate allows an upgrade install that shouldn't

upgrading to Windows XP: upgrade vs clean install: how to ...
I really don't trust Windows 2000 to do a clean install, and I'd rather just wipe the hard drive clean before I upgrade so that there is no chance for it to leave behind garbage. On the other hand, the one driver that I don't specifically have for Windows 2000 is the driver for my Sony Multiscan 210GS monitor.

Win2K upgrade or clean install?
MIRSE mi...@aol.com alt sys pc-clone compaq Subject: A Clean install of WinXP using the Upgrade WinXP From: mi...@aol.com (MIRSE) Date: 2/11/02 8:28 AM Eastern Standard Time Message-id: <20020211082830.07507.00000...@mb-ci.aol.com> I heard or read somewhere that a person can use the upgrade version of WinXP to do a