Stephen R.
December 5th 03, 12:39 AM
Dear Dan,
Thanks for the detailed reply, I suspected that this
might well be the case.
That only thing that still raises doubts is that data on
her desktop. This resides in C:\Documents and
Settings\UserName\Desktop As WIn XP also has the same
directory structure might it not overwrite the Documents
and Settings folder thus losing those files?
Have you had any experieince with a similar problem?
All the best,
Stephen
>-----Original Message-----
>this depends on how you install windows. if you choose
to install on the
>same disk and install windows in the default directory,
then you will not
>loose any data. windows 2000 installs into the "winnt"
directory, while
>windows xp installs into the "windows" directory. simply
installing windows
>xp will not overwrite the windows 2000 installation, but
it will overwrite
>the boot files (system partition) so, yes, this will fix
your bootup
>problem.
>
>however, i recommend that, after installing xp and
recovering and backing up
>all of your data, that you format your disk and do a
clean installation.
>this will help to mitigate the problems with installing
xp over w2k -
>duplicate profile folders and residual files/folders
from w2k, as well as
>the winnt directory taking up a lot of hdd space.
>
>Dan DeStefano
>
>
>"Stephen R" > wrote in message
...
>> Does a full install of XP on an exisitng 2000 machine
>> that has boot problems overwite data on a single
>> partititioned NTFS hard disk?
>>
>> ____________________________________________
>>
>> Backgroud:-
>>
>> A friend who lives in a remote location has a Win2000
pro
>> installation that has corrupted and will not boot.
>>
>> She has since bought Win XP Pro (full version) and
would
>> like to install this but not overwite the data on
drive c
>> as unfortunately she has not backed up in some time and
>> has data both in directories off the root and in
>> directories on her desktop (this is a 30Gb drive
>> partitioned as a single drive using NTFS).
>>
>> As all attempts to fix the boot problem using Win 2000
>> recovery console have failed (fixboot, fixmbr,
replacing
>> pagefile.sys etc) and she has not made an Emergency
>> Repair Disc. She can see data directories on the C:
>> drive but cannot change to anything but WINNT and
entire
>> directories are way too big to copy onto floppies.
>>
>> She has started an install using the XP CD and, as she
>> cannot start her existing operating system, is not
>> offered the choice of upgrading and can only perform a
>> full install. She went with this as far as setup
asking
>> her about disk partitioning and chickened out worried
>> that this would format the hard drive. Does it?
>>
>> At this moment I have told her to hold off and wait
till
>> the end of next week when another tech minded friend is
>> visiting and have him remove the hard disk and run it
as
>> a slave on another machine to save the data and this is
>> indeed a good option, however she is anxious to acces
>> some of the data as soon as possible to work on it.
>>
>> If XP can clean install without overwiting the data she
>> can then save the precious data by transferring it to
>> another 2000 machine on her home network.
>>
>> I would be extremely grateful for any advice.
>>
>> Stephen
>
>
>.
>
Thanks for the detailed reply, I suspected that this
might well be the case.
That only thing that still raises doubts is that data on
her desktop. This resides in C:\Documents and
Settings\UserName\Desktop As WIn XP also has the same
directory structure might it not overwrite the Documents
and Settings folder thus losing those files?
Have you had any experieince with a similar problem?
All the best,
Stephen
>-----Original Message-----
>this depends on how you install windows. if you choose
to install on the
>same disk and install windows in the default directory,
then you will not
>loose any data. windows 2000 installs into the "winnt"
directory, while
>windows xp installs into the "windows" directory. simply
installing windows
>xp will not overwrite the windows 2000 installation, but
it will overwrite
>the boot files (system partition) so, yes, this will fix
your bootup
>problem.
>
>however, i recommend that, after installing xp and
recovering and backing up
>all of your data, that you format your disk and do a
clean installation.
>this will help to mitigate the problems with installing
xp over w2k -
>duplicate profile folders and residual files/folders
from w2k, as well as
>the winnt directory taking up a lot of hdd space.
>
>Dan DeStefano
>
>
>"Stephen R" > wrote in message
...
>> Does a full install of XP on an exisitng 2000 machine
>> that has boot problems overwite data on a single
>> partititioned NTFS hard disk?
>>
>> ____________________________________________
>>
>> Backgroud:-
>>
>> A friend who lives in a remote location has a Win2000
pro
>> installation that has corrupted and will not boot.
>>
>> She has since bought Win XP Pro (full version) and
would
>> like to install this but not overwite the data on
drive c
>> as unfortunately she has not backed up in some time and
>> has data both in directories off the root and in
>> directories on her desktop (this is a 30Gb drive
>> partitioned as a single drive using NTFS).
>>
>> As all attempts to fix the boot problem using Win 2000
>> recovery console have failed (fixboot, fixmbr,
replacing
>> pagefile.sys etc) and she has not made an Emergency
>> Repair Disc. She can see data directories on the C:
>> drive but cannot change to anything but WINNT and
entire
>> directories are way too big to copy onto floppies.
>>
>> She has started an install using the XP CD and, as she
>> cannot start her existing operating system, is not
>> offered the choice of upgrading and can only perform a
>> full install. She went with this as far as setup
asking
>> her about disk partitioning and chickened out worried
>> that this would format the hard drive. Does it?
>>
>> At this moment I have told her to hold off and wait
till
>> the end of next week when another tech minded friend is
>> visiting and have him remove the hard disk and run it
as
>> a slave on another machine to save the data and this is
>> indeed a good option, however she is anxious to acces
>> some of the data as soon as possible to work on it.
>>
>> If XP can clean install without overwiting the data she
>> can then save the precious data by transferring it to
>> another 2000 machine on her home network.
>>
>> I would be extremely grateful for any advice.
>>
>> Stephen
>
>
>.
>