XP won´t upgrade 2000, says language versions differ

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Wolfram
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XP won´t upgrade 2000, says language versions differ

Post by Wolfram »

Trying to get rid of my Windows 2000 Professional network problem on my BP6 computer, I wanted to upgrade to XP Pro yesterday (cloned the harddisk before that to go back if necessary). Windows 2000 pro SP4 German is installed.

When I try to upgrade it with a German Windows XP Pro, I get an English(!) "Welcome" screen, and a message saying "upgrade not possible, language versions differ". On a second PC with Windows 2000 Pro SP3, the same copy of XP Pro offers me that upgrade option.

I also have an English language copy of XP Pro. That does offer me the upgrade option when I try to install it on the BP / German 2000 pro.

So somehow the language of my Windows 2000 installation on the BP6 seems to be recognized as English. I checked the country and language settings- all German. Deinstalled SP4- still the same problem.

Any help would be really appreciated.

Best regards,

Wolfram
BP6, RU BIOS, XP SP3, ACPI, 2x366@523(1,95V), Pentalpha HS + 1x 12cm fan @5V, 768MB, Powercolor Geforce 3, RTL8139D NIC, Terratec EWS64L, Samsung M40 80GB (2,5''), LiteOn CDRW
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Post by HAL6000 »

Ar you sure the service pack you installed was the german version? I have seen this creap up when the wrong language service pack gets isntalled.
Wolfram
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Post by Wolfram »

HAL6000 wrote:Ar you sure the service pack you installed was the german version? I have seen this creap up when the wrong language service pack gets isntalled.
Thanks. Maybe I installed a wrong language version in SP1-3. SP4 is definetly the german version.

Usually I pay attention to language versions, but I´m not sure. Unfortunately uninstallation of the older service packs is not available anymore. Damn.
BP6, RU BIOS, XP SP3, ACPI, 2x366@523(1,95V), Pentalpha HS + 1x 12cm fan @5V, 768MB, Powercolor Geforce 3, RTL8139D NIC, Terratec EWS64L, Samsung M40 80GB (2,5''), LiteOn CDRW
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