Upgrading XP Pro to Windows 2000 Advanced Server

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Ralph

Hi!

We would like to convert a machine we have, currently
running XP Pro, to Windows 2000 Advanced Server, as the
RAID subsystem that we have does not support Windows
Server 2003. We know there is no upgrade path from Pro to
2000 server, but what we would like to do is simply
retain the file system and files, which is already
formatted NTFS. Can we perform the OS upgrade without
destroying the NTFS partition and files? Thanks for your
help. Have a nice day!

Ralph Manning, (e-mail address removed)
 
I'd imagine like any other situation, if you did a fresh
install of the Server OS on top of xp (upgrade is not
possible), it would probably wipe out the windows folder
and perhaps other system folders like "my documents" and
such, but it doesn't touch any of the other directories
that you've created.

Make a good solid backup of everything you need, and then
just try doing a clean install right over the top of it.
The bad side to this is that you'll have to reinstall all
your programs over the top of themselves (in the program
files folder) because while they will still be there, the
new Windows registry will not have them installed.

But your files remain.
 
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