re: The most infuriating Windows platform!
Sunday, January 7, 2007 at 6:55 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jim O'Calaghan
(264 messages posted)
Hi Rick, if you install XP over W2K the new installation will just inherit the old
problems. In addition to what Steve suggested, you could look in eBay for the cd.
It's an old OS so you may have difficulties, and needless to mention, Microsoft won't
be of any help whatever. Good luck.
Jim
On Sunday, January 7, 2007 at 4:43 pm, Rick wrote:
>I am using Win2k Pro. It has to be the most infuriating OS i've ever used! It's
>impossible to recover and get the machine to boot when you get an error. To top
>it off, i lost my installation CD. I looked on bootdisk.com and found the 4-floppy
>installation disks, but it's NOT the cd, and you do need the cd to be able to fully
>attempt a recovery. Plus, it takes FOREVER to load the floppies, almost 10 minutes!
>
>
>Why couldn't microsoft include a DOS? If you need a file from the drive, you have
>to somehow, someway, get things to work, or you can't get the file. You can't salvage
>the files on the drive, even if the OS doesn't boot, like in win95/98.
>
>I have spent like 30 hours, that's 10 hours a day, the last three days, trying to
>get the drive to boot. I've been on numerous websites.
>
>The most ridiculous thing about it is, even if you have the installation cd, you
>can't install over the current installation without it wiping the old installation
>from the drive. It will be a fresh install.
>
>I will get XP in a week from now, which i shoulda got years ago! THAT's a good
OS!
> Now, my big question is. CAN I install XP over this installation, where it will
>keep the software and stuff i have currently on the drive, or will xp wipe out everything
>too?
>
>
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