2000 Never Fully Installed

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i tried to upgrade my dell win98 laptop and the win2k install bombed halfway
through, so I decided to build 2K startup disks, which did install, but once
again the 2K disks failed. Now I have two startup options, win 98 and win2k,
which defaults to win2k, starts booting up then hangs.

Can I just use my win98 startup disks? How do I delete the 2K stuff? ANy
help would be appreciated.

 

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Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.setup_upgrade (More info?)

What you installed is a dual-boot. You can boot with your Win98 startup disk
and issue the command
sys C:
this will rewrite the boot sector, then you can delete these files boot.ini,
ntldr, ntdetect.com, bootsect.dos, pagefile.sys and possibly ntbootdd.sys
from the root of the System partition C:\., then you can delete the Windows
2000 boot partition or \winnt directory (whichever the case)

Save yourself some time and trouble, given that you'll more than likely end
up with an unstable OS with all the remnants/ corruption left behind from
the upgrade. Best to blow it all away and go for the clean install.

To do a clean install, either boot the Windows 2000 CD-Rom or setup disks.
The set of four install disks can be created from your Win2k CD-rom; change
to the \bootdisk directory on the cd-rom and execute makeboot.exe (from dos)
or makebt32.exe (from 32 bit) and follow the prompts.

When you get to the point, delete the existing NTFS and or other partitions
found. After you delete the partition(s) abort the install, then again
restart the pc booting the CD-Rom or setup disks to avoid unexpected drive
letter assignments with your new install.

During Windows 2000 setup, at some point, will want to confirm the previous
operating system for the upgrade; at that point you'll simply insert the
qualified product install CD for it to verify. Then the install will
proceed.

Check the pc, mb or hardware manufacturer's web site for the latest bios and
or Windows 2000 drivers for your devices.

Be sure to apply these to your new install before connecting to any network.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/6/A/E6A04295-D2A8-40D0-A0C5-241BFECD095E/W2KSP4_EN.EXE
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-043.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-049.mspx


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"jeanneleez" wrote:
|i tried to upgrade my dell win98 laptop and the win2k install bombed
halfway
| through, so I decided to build 2K startup disks, which did install, but
once
| again the 2K disks failed. Now I have two startup options, win 98 and
win2k,
| which defaults to win2k, starts booting up then hangs.
|
| Can I just use my win98 startup disks? How do I delete the 2K stuff? ANy
| help would be appreciated.