[geeks] windows 2000 migration

[Chad McAuley]

On Jul 28, 2011, at 6:21 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> Applications? I don't think those 'transfer' between machines typically.

I think it's technically feasible, but for the reasons Shannon pointed out
(Windows and Windows programmers crapping data all over the filesystem and
registry) it's usually more effort than it's worth.

> On Jul 28, 2011, at 6:56 PM, Shannon <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:
>
>> What has caught me off guard though is her question: How do I move my
>> profiles, applications, and data to Windows 7? Microsoft has migration
tools for Windows XP and Vista, but not 2000 and their site says this is not
supported.

>> Their solution is to upgrade to Windows XP first, then migrate.

>> Is that really the only option?

>From some quick googling, it looks like neither one of Microsoft's migration
tools supports going directly from 2000 to 7, and the official party line
seems to be "it's not supported."

>> I don't have Windows XP handy, and I can't remember if you can do the
upgrade without losing the user accounts, data, and applications. Anyone
know?

An upgrade should preserve all the accounts/data/applications/etc.

>> Any other ideas?

I did stumble across something interesting that might work. Microsoft has
some
scripts they've put together to facilitate migrating profile data from 2000
to
7. They're intended for use with Microsoft's deployment tools, but I don't
see
why you couldn't run them manually.

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=11032