Cannot upgrade ME to Win2k on Inspiron

[Skeelo]

A friend gave me a Dell Inspiron 7000 to upgrade Millenium to Windows 2000. I chose to convert Fat32 to NTFS...seems to have converted fine. After rebooting and windows started loading the setup, screen goes black about half way through and then nothing else.

Help?!

[FunctionX]

Hmm, is the data important on the drive?

[coolqf]

Go into safe mode and use system restore.
I recommend partition the HD and move all the important data to one. Then reformat the partition where the OS will go and do a clean install of Win2k.

[Variogon]

I believe that you cannot upgrade ME to win2k, because win2k is actually older than ME.:)

[silence]

Yup ^...

It's better to just do a clean install. As Microsoft (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;272627) puts it: "Upgrading Windows Millennium Edition (Me) to Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional has not been tested for full feature functionality and is not a supported upgrade path."