Installing Windows 2000 Professional

[nate]

I have been trying to install Windows 2000 Professional
onto a friends computer. It has a brand new 40gig hard
drive. My question is, can you install Win-2000 using a
Windows 98 boot disk? I always get a boot from CD-ROM
failure message. The disk is good, I checked it on my
computer. Win 98 floppy boot disk is also good.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

There's no need for a Win98 boot disk.

Simply boot from the Win2K installation CD. You'll be offered the
opportunity to delete, create, and format partitions as part of the
installation process. (You may need to re-arrange the order of boot
devices in the PC's BIOS to boot from the CD.)

Before proceeding, though, you'd better take a few minutes to
ensure that there are Win2K device drivers available for your PC's
specific components. There may not be, if the PC was specifically
designed for WinMe. Have you made sure the PC is capable of
supporting Win2K? This information will be found at the PC's
manufacturer's web site, and on Microsoft's Hardware Compatibility
List (http://www.microsoft.com/hcl/default.asp). Also bear in mind
that computers designed for, and sold with, WinMe very often fail to
meet Win2K's much more stringent hardware quality requirements.


Bruce Chambers
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[Nate]

Thanks that was very helpful.

-----Original Message-----
Greetings --

There's no need for a Win98 boot disk.

Simply boot from the Win2K installation CD. You'll be offered the
opportunity to delete, create, and format partitions as part of the
installation process. (You may need to re-arrange the order of boot
devices in the PC's BIOS to boot from the CD.)

Before proceeding, though, you'd better take a few minutes to
ensure that there are Win2K device drivers available for your PC's
specific components. There may not be, if the PC was specifically
designed for WinMe. Have you made sure the PC is capable of
supporting Win2K? This information will be found at the PC's
manufacturer's web site, and on Microsoft's Hardware Compatibility
List (http://www.microsoft.com/hcl/default.asp). Also bear in mind
that computers designed for, and sold with, WinMe very often fail to
meet Win2K's much more stringent hardware quality requirements.


Bruce Chambers
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having both at once. - RAH





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[Jim]

-----Original Message-----
I have been trying to install Windows 2000 Professional
onto a friends computer. It has a brand new 40gig hard
drive. My question is, can you install Win-2000 using a
Windows 98 boot disk? I always get a boot from CD-ROM
failure message. The disk is good, I checked it on my
computer. Win 98 floppy boot disk is also good.
.
Sure, just put in the Win 98 boot disk and put the Win

2000 CD in the CD player and boot. Make sure the bios is
set to boot form the floppy.

 

[Dave Patrick]

Answered in .setup

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|I have been trying to install Windows 2000 Professional
| onto a friends computer. It has a brand new 40gig hard
| drive. My question is, can you install Win-2000 using a
| Windows 98 boot disk? I always get a boot from CD-ROM
| failure message. The disk is good, I checked it on my
| computer. Win 98 floppy boot disk is also good.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

You're welcome.

Bruce Chambers
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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. - RAH