Win98 to Win2K Install problems

[Michael]

Hello...and thanks!!

I am upgrading a Gateway from Win98 to Win2000 pro. from
CD.

At some point I said yes to the prompt confirming the
FAT32 to NTFS conversion.
Everything went fine. It went through a major portion of
the setup process and after restarting a few times it got
to the following final phase of the setup:

1. Installing Devices
2. Networking Settings
3. Installing Components
4. Final tasks
a. Installing start menu items
b. Registering Components
c. Upgrades programs and system settings
d. Save Settings
e. Remove Temporary Files

The install process now does a continuous loop starting at
approx. 20% into installing step 4c and then back to step
1.
It seems to access the floppy drive just before restarting
the machine.
It then says "You need the NTFS to run this system and
NTFS is running. System setup restarting." ???????

I have a setuperr.log file if it helps too.

Thanks very much!
Michael

 

[sgopus]

I was wrong with my last statement, converting back to
FAT32 would involve a reformat and of course you would
lose your data.
I misread what you said sorry! Have you made any backups
previous to this upgrade?

I hope so.
I suggest you start over. Power the machine off, power it
back on, set the bios to boot to the install cd, and do a
reinstall this time choose FAT32. any chance you have
some spare space you can create another partition for this
install?? at least 2-3 gig?

This might save your data!