Upgrade from Windows ME

[NotATechie]

I have been attempting to upgrade to Windows 2000. The Dialog greys out the Upgrade option leaving me with just the clean install. How can I remedy this?

[At0mic]

Is there any reason why you need to perform an upgrade? A clean is install is much better.

Anyway, to answer your question, you need to have a Retail Licence Key in order to perform an Upgrade. OEM Keys only support Clean Install. I think anyway correct me if I'm wrong somebody. I assume you dont have a VLK.

[InTheWayBoy]

Can you upgrade to 2000 from a Win9x based system? Hell, even if you could I would doubt you find anyone here who would actually suggest it...cut your loses and go for the clean install.

[Egon's Dragon]

Definitely do a clean install, get ME the hell off your system. I used fdisk to completely reformat my drive. Get behind me, Satan!

Of course, it completely wipes your drive, so you have to re-install everything from scratch.

Edited September 25, 2005 by Egon's Dragon

[colemancb]

haha, white stripes.

anyway, my experience is doing an upgrade will cost you countless hours of application compatibility issues, patching, etc...

go for the clean install.

[Gurgelmeyer]

Upgrading from Me is not supported - Me was released after w2k, remember

[InTheWayBoy]

I forgot about that...but even before that, they don't allow an upgrade from Win98 or Win95 I think.

[amfony]

they do - 98 can go to nt4 - to go to 2000

inconvienitent - and not even worth the effort but can be done