Briefcase Foolishness

I have created and used a briefcase between my Desktop running Win 2000 and my Laptop running ME for over a year now. They are linked over my company's Ethernet network. Suddenly I am unable to update the files on my notebook. The update function goes out to look for the differences between the briefcases and never returns. I can create a new briefcase and send all of the files across, but the update function will not work for the new briefcase either. I recently updated IE and the Media Player on my 2000 machine. Is there new code in this that is messing me up? Do I need an ME update too? If so I will be going to XP on the Laptop. Is there a problem between 2000 and XP I should know about? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

2000 and XP play well together.

Can't offer you much help with ME except to suggest that changing the OS is probably a very good idea. But if you do, make it a clean XP install since ME is the one OS that often gives real problems if you try the upgrade route.

 

XP Upgrade

My laptop is an HP model, and I received the XP upgrade CD directly from them. How do I do a clean install with an upgrade CD? Doesn't the beast balk and refuse to continue if it doesn't find Windows already present? If I'm not deluded, I seem to recall some variable you can alter which will allow a clean install from the upgrade disk. I remember having a problem with a hung machine during an upgrade a few years back. I can't afford Microsquat's ridiculous fee for a full blown "new" XP version, so I am hoping this is true.

 

The specific will depend on exactly what CD they shipped you. If it is a normal XP upgrade it will probably only need to "see" the ME install disk at some point to prove you have a licensed OS you are upgrading.

If ME and XP are both HP things rather than regular OS CDs, then I really don't know but suspect you might have problems.

I'd say this was a good question for HP tech support. Ask if you can just do a fresh install with the XP CD and insert your ME one as proof-of-purchase at some point.