Replacing XP with 2000

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2004-08-06 02:22am

My XP system partition is NTFS and is on the same HD as one of my FAT32 game partitions. I'm thinking that booting from 2k CD and slamming the XP partition during setup should work, but some google links have suggested a complete wipe of the HD itself. Because I've never "downgraded" to an older OS without doing it fresh, I'm having my doubts.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2004-08-06 02:53am

So why are you downgrading?

Anyway installing 2k on an XP partition ough to wipe only your documents & settings folder and windows folder IIRC, though from setup you can destroy the partition XP is on and recreate it and reformat it as an NTFS partition, thats like installing it fresh.

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2004-08-06 03:03am

His Divine Shadow wrote:So why are you downgrading?

I'm going to the dependable woman a congratulations for people who know what I'm refering to

Anyway installing 2k on an XP partition ough to wipe only your documents & settings folder and windows folder IIRC, though from setup you can destroy the partition XP is on and recreate it and reformat it as an NTFS partition, thats like installing it fresh.

Makes sense~ Guess some of those people were fearmongering~

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-08-06 03:05am

I'm going to the dependable woman a congratulations for people who know what I'm refering to

But...but XP has bigger tracts of land!

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2004-08-06 03:26am

Hamel wrote:I'm going to the dependable woman a congratulations for people who know what I'm refering to

2k3 is the best MS OS yet, sure it's a server but making into a workstation was easy, I even played doom 3 on it.

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2004-08-06 03:28am

His Divine Shadow wrote:
Hamel wrote:I'm going to the dependable woman a congratulations for people who know what I'm refering to
2k3 is the best MS OS yet, sure it's a server but making into a workstation was easy, I even played doom 3 on it.

I've heard good things about it, but I'd rather stick to 2k until I get a better computer.

Archaic` · Post by **Archaic`** » 2004-08-06 08:15am

Hamel wrote:I'm going to the dependable woman a congratulations for people who know what I'm refering to

OS-tan I assume?

GoldenFalcon · Post by **GoldenFalcon** » 2004-08-06 10:14am

Archaic` wrote:
Hamel wrote:I'm going to the dependable woman a congratulations for people who know what I'm refering to
OS-tan I assume?

The only reason why one wouldn't want to run Win2000 is the lack of compatibility for older programs, but I guess WinXP sorta has that problem too.

GrandMasterTerwynn · Post by **GrandMasterTerwynn** » 2004-08-06 12:50pm

GoldenFalcon wrote:
Archaic` wrote:
Hamel wrote:I'm going to the dependable woman a congratulations for people who know what I'm refering to
OS-tan I assume?
:D

The only reason why one wouldn't want to run Win2000 is the lack of compatibility for older programs, but I guess WinXP sorta has that problem too.

Hell, the Compatibility Mode feature in WinXP is available for Win2k as well (as of SP2 . . . though we're clear through SP4 now.) You just have to enable it.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2004-08-06 01:40pm

Hamel, may I ask what it was about XP that brought about this desire to downgrade? I'm running 2K right now, and every once in awhile there are some shiny XP features that appeal to me, but I don't want to jump in and find myself wishing I was back in Kansas.

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2004-08-06 05:21pm

Uraniun235 wrote:Hamel, may I ask what it was about XP that brought about this desire to downgrade? I'm running 2K right now, and every once in awhile there are some shiny XP features that appeal to me, but I don't want to jump in and find myself wishing I was back in Kansas.

What's the point in running XP if I'm not using most of its exclusive features, such as the Fisher Price visuals? 2k runs a little faster anyway. I think the only thing I'm going to miss in XP is msconfig from the run menu, but I can do similar things in 2000 without a problem. After all I did take classes in 2k Server and Advanced Server.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-08-06 06:43pm

Hamel wrote:What's the point in running XP if I'm not using most of its exclusive features, such as the Fisher Price visuals? 2k runs a little faster anyway. I think the only thing I'm going to miss in XP is msconfig from the run menu, but I can do similar things in 2000 without a problem. After all I did take classes in 2k Server and Advanced Server.

There are some tweaks under the hood not related to the GUI and XP SP2 will attempt to be a massive security overhaul that may not be backported to 2K. Some applications (like Avid FreeDV) also require XP

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2004-08-06 08:05pm

phongn wrote:
Hamel wrote:What's the point in running XP if I'm not using most of its exclusive features, such as the Fisher Price visuals? 2k runs a little faster anyway. I think the only thing I'm going to miss in XP is msconfig from the run menu, but I can do similar things in 2000 without a problem. After all I did take classes in 2k Server and Advanced Server.
There are some tweaks under the hood not related to the GUI and XP SP2 will attempt to be a massive security overhaul that may not be backported to 2K. Some applications (like Avid FreeDV) also require XP

SP2 is something I do not give a shit about, and 2k is secure enough. To my knowledge I have no applications that are incompatible with 2k.

To be honest, this is something I should have done last year while I was taking classes.