On 13 May 2006 at 14:28, A-NO-NE Music wrote: > David W. Fenton / 2006/05/13 / 01:58 PM wrote: > > >Well, the way to do that is to use non-destructive partitioning > >software like Partition Magic to create a new partition to which you > >copy the files. Then wipe the old partition and install from the new > >one. > > I am a long time Power Quest products user, even after Symantec killed > them :-) What you are saying seems to be the way to go. I just need > to ask you one last question. When you reinstall from CD to the > existing Win2K volume with file copy option, it rewrites the boot.ini > for installer to kick in on reboot. This can't be done with your > method above. If I remember correctly, Win98 boot disk won't let you > run copied Setup.exe because it's Win32 that DOS can't run. So, how > do I run the Setup.exe from the temporary partition you mentioned > above?
Not sure I understand. Setup.exe copied from the install CD should not be a Windows program. It will launch the Windows GUI in contexts where it makes sense, but is actually a "DOS" program, so should run from a Win9x command prompt. > If I did reinstall over existing WINNT directory, it gives you clean > Win2K but leaves tons of garbage in Program Folder those which > registries are long gone. If I remember correctly, Win2K installer > does not offer to remove all the garbage directories. Is there any > reliable freeware to clean this mess? I think you mean if you install Windows into a new folder, you get a clean Windows installation, but still have the old Programs folder. I see no way around this, but I've always considered it an *advantage*, since some portion of those programs need not be re-installed to run. Of course, I do this only when I'm trying to clean up an existing machine, not initialize a new one, so I'm not wanting to delete the programs. I don't know of any way to do it, except with one of the commercial uninstallers, which generally take longer to run than it would take to delete the existing program files folder and re-build it entirely by re-installing all your apps. You'd want to delete it before installing your new copy of Windows, since Windows installs some files in the Common Files folder. > I am not sure if anyone else on this list is interested in this thread > so I probably should switch to private exchange soon. Thanks David. I don't mind if it stays public. The fact is, I don't re-install Windows that often, because the PCs I manage are well-cared for and well-configured in the first place and generally simply don't suffer from bit-rot. And more and more we're making pristine images and if a re-install *is* necessary, we just image back to the original state, instead of running the installers. So, there are a lot of situations that I just haven't encountered, simply because the practices I implement with my clients mean that things never get to the state that I have to do any of those kinds of installs. And installing Win2K over Win9x is something I've never done, because I never considered any box built for Win9x to be adequate to run Win2K in the first place. The only exceptions to that, I believe, would be Win98 and WinME boxes that were purchased after Win2K was already out, and that should have been purchased with Win2K installed on them in the first place. But many people were victims of MS's marketing confusion, where they made people think that Win2K was not for home use, but for corporate use only. That was a bloody stupid marketing decision on MS's part, as Win2K was one of the best versions of Windows ever released. It and Win2K3 Server are my current favorites of all time (I hate XP). But now I truly *am* getting into territory that probably nobody gives a rat's ass about. . . -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
