Disabled Device Settings May Not Be Retained During Upgrade
Article ID: 198868
Article Last Modified on 10/30/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition
This article was previously published under Q198868
SYMPTOMS
Hardware devices that have been marked as disabled in Device Manager in Microsoft Windows 95 or Microsoft Windows 98 may be enabled when you upgrade to Windows 2000.
CAUSE
Because of the differences between the Windows 95/98 and Windows 2000 architectures, hardware detection and enumeration must be performed on all devices by Windows 2000. Therefore, all devices are detected during Setup, regardless of their status before upgrading.
STATUS
This behavior is by design.
Additional query words: migrate
Keywords: kbhardware kbprb kbsetup KB198868