Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:19:39 +0300 From: John Niemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Win2k install update
Ok so I do everything by the book... First I try to make a dos floppy from a disk image. Doesn't work, says that my disk drive doesn't support the image format (using a PC that is just 2 years old). I finally find a dos disk image from the net that works, so I get to make the dos boot floppy after 15 minutes of trying. Then I boot up the Libretto with it and type "sys c: a:"... And instead of transferring the system files like a good boy, I get an error "not enough space on target drive". I then check that c: has over 1 gig of free space and run scandisk's surface scan... everything looks ok. At this point I am considering of throwing something on the wall very hard but fortunately I am not holding anything in my hands :) I then thought "what more could go wrong?"... and I manually deleted every Win98 folder from my HD, then booted up with the dos floppy, loaded smartdrive (the only thing that actually worked at first try) and started to install win2k. The win2k install has been running for 90 minutes or so now and is probably finished soon. So the point here is that I didn't transfer the system files to C:\ but left the old Win98 stuff there. (whatever that is...?) So that's just an update on the hard road I have gone through, as you remember I have had "some" problems with my new Libretto earlier but hopefully everything will go smoothly as I get w2k installed. And one question considering the boot image disk; Was it ok to manually delete the Win98 files from the HD without transferring the "clean" dos boot image (with sys c: a:) from the floppy? Are there some files on root c:\ that should still be deleted? I only deleted the Win98 dir and also the Program Files dir. Also, can win2k get faulty because there are W98 system files on c:\? And how to remove them (and what are the file names to be removed if there are such leftover files?) Thanks. -John
