Freezes!

[Paul N.]

I installed a 80gb hard drive in my 1ghz,133mhz bus
system. It has 640 mb of RAM.
I did a clean install of my win98 using 32bit and large
disk format. My sys. recognizes the 80gb HD. and all hdwr.
So far so good. When I attempted to upgrade to
win2000,it copies a ton of files, then the system freezes
on the screen which reads "Set-up will now restart, please
wait". About an hour later,I went back to win98 and made
sure the hard drive stand-by and power off settings were
disabled. Ditto, the same thing. I have changed the CMOS
to non OS and to OS.
No matter what I do, I get the same results.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Paul

 

[NIC Student]

I would boot from the Win 2000 cd and format yourdrive NTFS and do a fresh
install. Of course this means you lose all data on your computer. If you
have an upgrade version of Win2000 when it will prompt you for the Win 98
cd, which you then insert and all is well.

If you don't have a Win98 cd because your cd is one of those system restore
disks from an OEM, then you will need to install Win98 first. In that case,
I would get the latest BIOS updates from your computer manufacturer and set
the BIOS settings back to default. Since you are having problems at this
step, remove all unnecessary hardware like modems, network cards, etc, so
your system is as basic as possible (unplug all usb devices, etc). After
Win2000 is on, then put everything back together.