re: Win2K Install Issue
Monday, September 10, 2001 at 9:47 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by James
(2 messages posted)
Try using delpart to clean the hard drives entirely before installing 98. A good
search engine should be able to find it.
Lots of techs I used to work with recommended it for going from NT4 to 9x since they
claimed that NT4 left bits of itself that fdisk alone was not able to correct. Something
similar might be happening to NT5. Oops. I mean Windows 2000.
On Saturday, September 8, 2001 at 9:20 pm, Vic wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I had Win2k a few months ago running on my PII 450. I switched back to Win98SE
but
>wanted to switch back to Win2K Pro. To make it a clean install, I formatted the
drives,
>deleted the partitions through FDISK and then created the partitions again. I have
>2 SCSI hard drives. The install appeared to go fine until the part came up where
>it was installing the drivers. The system would freeze. I thought maybe the system
>was doing its thing so I left it alone but after a while I noticed that it was not
>working. The install stayed at the same spot and the mouse pointer froze. The last
>thing I did while I was on Win98SE was that I flashed the BIOS. Prior to flashing
>the BIOS, win2k pro ran fine. I went back to win98se since the tech support of the
>recording software I use doesn't support it. I also couldn't make use of the printer
>drivers for my HP printer. Does anyone know why all of a sudden Win2K Pro won't
>work? Could the bios update be the reason? Thanks so much for your help.
>
>Vic
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- Win2K Install Issue (Vince: Saturday, September 8, 2001 at 9:20 pm)
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