Upgrading from Win Me

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I am trying to upgrade my PC from Win Me to Win 2000 (base level); I have
done it
before without a problem.

This time, however, the upgrade process has gone into a loop.

All was well until the last set of operations - Performing Final Tasks. On
this
screen, it went through the first two items (Install Start Menu Items and
Register

Components) OK. It then proceeded to 'Upgrades program and system
settings'; this was very slow, with a long pause about one-eighth of the way
along the progress bar.

Eventually, it proceeded to about 3/4 of the way, then it skipped the last
two
items and rebooted.

Having rebooted, it re-started Setup. I have been through the process
several more times - always the same. I tried starting in Safe mode - same
(in fact, the screen looks identical in Safe mode, so perhaps Setup runs in
Safe mode anyway).

I have SP 4 (as an EXE file). I thought to run that but cannot get a DOS
prompt -
the startup screen has a MS-DOS choice but that turns out to be running
under Me
still and produces a 'missing file' msg.

Help!

--
Julian

 

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It's not technically possible to perform an upgrade from WinMe to
Win2K, as WinMe is the newer OS. You would have to back up your data
and start with a clean hard drive.

Windows Me to Windows 2000 Upgrade Is Not Supported
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;272627.


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"overj" <overj@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0AB38AB7-782A-4B3A-A128-EA0251F5B47D@microsoft.com...
>I am trying to upgrade my PC from Win Me to Win 2000 (base level); I
>have
> done it
> before without a problem.
>
> This time, however, the upgrade process has gone into a loop.
>
> All was well until the last set of operations - Performing Final
> Tasks. On
> this
> screen, it went through the first two items (Install Start Menu
> Items and
> Register
>
> Components) OK. It then proceeded to 'Upgrades program and system
> settings'; this was very slow, with a long pause about one-eighth of
> the way
> along the progress bar.
>
> Eventually, it proceeded to about 3/4 of the way, then it skipped
> the last
> two
> items and rebooted.
>
> Having rebooted, it re-started Setup. I have been through the
> process
> several more times - always the same. I tried starting in Safe
> mode - same
> (in fact, the screen looks identical in Safe mode, so perhaps Setup
> runs in
> Safe mode anyway).
>
> I have SP 4 (as an EXE file). I thought to run that but cannot get
> a DOS
> prompt -
> the startup screen has a MS-DOS choice but that turns out to be
> running
> under Me
> still and produces a 'missing file' msg.
>
> Help!
>
> --
> Julian

 

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Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.setup (More info?)

"overj" <overj@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0AB38AB7-782A-4B3A-A128-EA0251F5B47D@microsoft.com...
> I am trying to upgrade my PC from Win Me to Win 2000 (base level); I have
> done it
> before without a problem.
>
> This time, however, the upgrade process has gone into a loop.
>
> All was well until the last set of operations - Performing Final Tasks.
On
> this
> screen, it went through the first two items (Install Start Menu Items and
> Register
>
> Components) OK. It then proceeded to 'Upgrades program and system
> settings'; this was very slow, with a long pause about one-eighth of the
way
> along the progress bar.
>
> Eventually, it proceeded to about 3/4 of the way, then it skipped the
last
> two
> items and rebooted.
>
> Having rebooted, it re-started Setup. I have been through the process
> several more times - always the same. I tried starting in Safe mode -
same
> (in fact, the screen looks identical in Safe mode, so perhaps Setup runs
in
> Safe mode anyway).
>
> I have SP 4 (as an EXE file). I thought to run that but cannot get a DOS
> prompt -
> the startup screen has a MS-DOS choice but that turns out to be running
> under Me
> still and produces a 'missing file' msg.
>
> Help!
>
> --
> Julian

Windows 2000 came out first.
Windows ME was released later.
It follows that you cannot "upgrade" from Windows ME to Windows 2000.
It would be a "backgrade", and is therefore unsupported. Sometimes you're
lucky - it might just work. However, if you want a good, solid, robust and
reliable system then you must install Win2000 from scratch.