Installed Win 2000 Wrong 1

[rokerij]

Hello fellow teks!
One of my employees took home a copy of my Win2000 Pro to upgrade their current ME Windows. I was unable to be there during the installation but it seems that she partitioned her hard drive so that their are in fact two OS on the machine, and she has the choice as to which to boot from when she starts up. Well, WinME is garbage and I want her to remove it completely, thing is that her files (from the original OS) do not seem accessible when she is running the 2000. What is the best way to handle this? Is there a way to grab the files needed from the old Partition and move them so that they are usable on the new OS? Should she boot up using ME and then back up important files to disk, before reformatting the entire drive?
Thanks everyone for taking the time to read this and lend a hand.

S.C. Albertin
Database Administrator/Newbie Tech
United Way

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[maotx]

Best bet to fix this is to load ME and save files to other media. Insert 2000 cd and reboot. Once at the partitioning screen, delete all partitions pertaining to the OS drive. Create one partition, set it up as NTFS. Install Windows 2000. Copy backuped files over to 2000. If you would just like to keep the partitions, but copy the files over to the 2000 OS, try using this third party program,

http://www.ntfs.com/products.htm

You can use it to boot to dos and read fat32 and ntfs partitions, good luck.

Mark Owen