god i hate xp home edition. came with a new laptop. i run w2k professional on this machine, put the cd into the laptop but the bloody thing says "the version on the cd is older...won't upgrade!"

i thought w2k was higher in the chain than crappy XP?

i lost track of all M$ operating systems after 95/98.

so, apart from a clean harddrive/partition installation is there a way to force/trick it into this "upgrade"?

Nope, you have to do a full install again :(

At least that way, It will be a clean install :D

Darren

[Edited by darlodge - 7/21/2003 5:07:08 PM]

yeah... you'll have to flatten it and start again. Even if you did frigg the installation of W2K then you'd end up with mismatches of things like .DLL's

Phil

You know it's funny. I Love, just love (Kevin Keegan stylee) Windows XP. It's the most secure stable operating system I've had the pleasure to use, lovely to look at, just so friendly etc etc.
All I've heard about W2K....Is that it isn't any of the above.
I only know what I've heard and experienced, but can someone with a little 'authority' on the subject throw some imformative light on this?
Just interested.

i dunno - i'd just assumed that w2k pro was better than w2k pro. i've moved from 98 to w2k pro and such a difference. i despise the **** interface of xp - immediately changed it to classic style (the new style might look snazzy, but takes ages to find stuff/navigate/get anywhere...)

i haven't crashed my w2k machine yet, even with all the hell it gets from dodgy programming etc. the xp laptop crashes FAR too much, anything from playing a DVD to writing a CDRW seems to be unpopular.

It crashes? Wow, amazing never happened to me. Ever. Touch wood.