Question about changing type of W2K install

[Guest]

Greetings all!

I am looking to switch from Win98 to W2K and originally considered
performing a clean install, setting up a dual-boot in the process.
Afterwards, and in 20/20 hindsight, I have decided that doing an upgrade
install will probably be better for our situation.
What do I need to do to uninstall the "clean" version so that the "upgrade"
install will go as smoothly as possible?

Thanks!

Greg

 

[red cloud]

Greetings all!

I am looking to switch from Win98 to W2K and originally considered
performing a clean install, setting up a dual-boot in the process.
Afterwards, and in 20/20 hindsight, I have decided that doing an upgrade
install will probably be better for our situation.
What do I need to do to uninstall the "clean" version so that the "upgrade"
install will go as smoothly as possible?

Thanks!

Greg

Be cares on that. Clean install will delete all the data in hard
drive.

 

[Dave Patrick]

Be advised that upgrades almost always fail for any number of reasons. 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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:
| Greetings all!
|
| I am looking to switch from Win98 to W2K and originally considered
| performing a clean install, setting up a dual-boot in the process.
| Afterwards, and in 20/20 hindsight, I have decided that doing an upgrade
| install will probably be better for our situation.
| What do I need to do to uninstall the "clean" version so that the
"upgrade"
| install will go as smoothly as possible?
|
| Thanks!
|
| Greg

 

[Guest]

Dave,

Thanks for the info! One thing that I don't think my original question made
clear enough is that I currently have W2K installed as a dual-boot option
(and I did it according to the directions so as to not delete everything on
the hard drive). Per your instructions below, will I need to back everything
up prior to installing W2K (I guess I'm not sure what the delete
partition/abort install/restart process gains you)? I want to be sure that I
do this correctly and not p&ss off the wife...

Greg

 

[Dave Patrick]

Yes, you'll want to backup anything you don't want to loose.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Dave,
|
| Thanks for the info! One thing that I don't think my original question
made
| clear enough is that I currently have W2K installed as a dual-boot option
| (and I did it according to the directions so as to not delete everything
on
| the hard drive). Per your instructions below, will I need to back
everything
| up prior to installing W2K (I guess I'm not sure what the delete
| partition/abort install/restart process gains you)? I want to be sure
that I
| do this correctly and not p&ss off the wife...
|
| Greg

 

[Guest]

Dave,

So, according to your directions in your first reply, by following them I
will in essence be wiping out all the existing info on the hard drive.

 

[Dave Patrick]

Yes, correct.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Dave,
|
| So, according to your directions in your first reply, by following them I
| will in essence be wiping out all the existing info on the hard drive.

 

[Guest]

Dave,

Thanks a lot for your help! I am comfortable doing this but, if for some
reason my wife is not, do I delete the "winnt" directory (existing from the
current 'dual boot install') and do the 'upgrade' install? Again, this would
only be in the event of non-concensus on the truly clean install...

Greg

 

[Dave Patrick]

You can boot with your Win98 startup disk and issue the command
sys C:
this will rewrite the win9x 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)

Then *do* backup everything you can't afford to lose since the upgrade
process might leave you with nothing.

You can them start win98 normally and begin the upgrade process.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Dave,
|
| Thanks a lot for your help! I am comfortable doing this but, if for some
| reason my wife is not, do I delete the "winnt" directory (existing from
the
| current 'dual boot install') and do the 'upgrade' install? Again, this
would
| only be in the event of non-concensus on the truly clean install...
|
| Greg