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To: Scumbria who wrote (131503)	4/2/2001 6:38:13 PM
From: John Walliker	Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, I need to save the data and programs on the disk. If I backup everything except Windows, format, install W2K, and restore the data- what is likelihood that anything will work? When I first tested W2k betas I had the same concern, so I bought a new IDE disc (all the existing ones were NT4 SCSI) and installed W2k on the new disc. When I was comfortable with it, I activated the old discs as well as the new one so I could access all my data and would still be able to revert back to NT4 if necessary. I did need to reinstall some applications so that they would be properly set up in the W2k registry though. BTW - NTFS volumes created by NT4 can be used without problems by W2k, but NTFS volumes created by W2k cannot be accessed by NT4. If you are really paranoid - set the read-only switch on your old drive. John