WinME to Win2k?

[neutron]

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No that WinME support is being discontinued I really need to do something about my laptop which runs on ME. I have Win2k CDs and that would really be the easiest "upgrade" but...everyone goes crazy when I say I want to do this!
Can it be done...without deinstalling ME or with installing ME or only by dual booting (which I don't really want to do)??
Has anyone out there ever successfully done this?
All replies gratefully received!

[TheReasonIFailed]

Windows ME was released after Windows 2000 so that's one hurdle.

Microsoft says that "upgrading" from ME to 2000 is not possible because in essance it is a downgrade because of the reason posted above.