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Hello, is there anyone who can help me. I upgraded from
98 to 2000. I did not back up my data. Now I cannot
access any of my prorgams. this is shaping out to be a
tremendous disaster for me. I chose NTSF, when I
installed. Is there any way to revert back to my old
operating system. Not even my modem works now. Help.
 
Paul said:
Hello, is there anyone who can help me. I upgraded from
98 to 2000. I did not back up my data. Now I cannot
access any of my prorgams. this is shaping out to be a
tremendous disaster for me. I chose NTSF, when I
installed. Is there any way to revert back to my old
operating system. Not even my modem works now. Help.
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As BT said, you cannot go back to Win98. The wider issue
here is your backup strategy. A strategy is good if the total
loss of your PC (including the room it is in) causes no more
than an inconvenience but no data loss. This usually implies
that you important files must be backed up on a daily or
weekly basis.

You might consider this event as a useful reminder to review
your backup strategy. Next time you might lose the lot. It
happens all the time.
 
As others point out you must either (if W2k is working) reinstall your
programs OR (if everything is scrambled) you must format that partition
and do a clean install of either W98 or W2k.

If W2k is booting and reinstalling your applications works, you should
be able to recover all your data. Then back it up!

If you have to reformat that partition and do a clean install, you may
be able to recover all your data BEFORE doing that, if you physically
remove that hard drive, attach it to a working W2k machine, and put that
data either on another partition on that same drive if you can, or put
it on some portable medium (CD, another hard drive you buy/have, etc.),
and carry everything back to your own machine.
 
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