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  1. 01-20-2004, 03:27 AM #1
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    Cannot upgrade ME to Win2k on Inspiron

    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?!
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  2. 01-20-2004, 09:24 PM #2
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    Hmm, is the data important on the drive?
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    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.
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    I believe that you cannot upgrade ME to win2k, because win2k is actually older than ME.
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  6. 01-23-2004, 12:48 PM #5
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    Yup ^...

    It's better to just do a clean install. As Microsoft 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."
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