Re: FAT32 to NTFS upgrade very very slow

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I am presently upgrading a friend's ME system to Windows 2000. I
rebooted with the CD in the drive and it asked me how I wanted to
deal
with the drive. I chose to leave ME on the drive but to convert the
drive to NTFS. Windows 2000 rebooted and appeared to be installed. It
ran chkdsk on the FAT32 drive. Then it said it was converting to
NTFS.
We ran through it a couple of times, but it seemed to take 20-30
minutes
and it seemed to be frozen at:

Converting drive

We're not really sure because the hard drive lights are messed up so
it's hard to tell if it is stalled or what. Right now, we are going
to
give it overnight to do it, which seems stupid.

Is it normal to take this long?

Also, the drive is almost 20 GB (19.something) and I understand that
raw
Win2K has problems with 20 GB drives without a service pack patch.

Any ideas what is going on?

And what do I do if it won't go on? I am thinking of choosing startup
options, deleting the Win2K install, and starting over and this time
either formatting the drive NTFS flatout or else leaving it FAT32.
There is no "upgrade" from WinME to Win2000, because WinME
was released ***after*** Win2000. What you're doing is an
unsupported operation. Sometimes it works, sometimes people
get weird and wonderful problems. If you want a rock-solid
installation then you should install Win2000 from scratch.
Ok, it eventually formatted the drive, but it took about an hour or so.
Now it won't see the cable modem at all though which is really weird.

I assume that your cable is connected to your PC via an
Ethernet cable.

Yes it is.

If so then you must make sure that the
PC is on the same subnet as the cable modem. If the cable
modem is a DHCP server then putting the PC on DHCP
will be sufficient to set the various IP addresses.

I'm not really understanding that but I assume that the cable net
provider can help him out over the phone.

This is not really an issue for a service provider to
resolve but some will assist regardless.

How come Win2K refuses to even
recognize cable modems as a possible device, and has no knowledge of any
Motorola cable modem at all?

It does not matter what device this is. What matters is
your IP addresses. If the addresses are wrong then no
machine, not even Win98 or WinME, will talk to this
modem.

Guy next door said I need to set up an Internet connection before
anything works. Is that true?

No.

Is it correct that WinME will not boot now (it gives us the option
during bootup to boot ME or 2000) now that the drive is formatted NTFS?
So the ME install is now useless?

Yes.

Do this:
1. Start / Settings / Control Panel / Network and Dial-up Connections.
2. Double-click Local Area Connection / Properties.
3. Double-click "Internet Protocol".
4. Click the upper and the lower radio button that lets you obtain
an IP address automatically, then click OK a few times until everything
is closed.
5. Click Start / Run / cmd {OK}
6. Type these commands:
ipconfig /all > c:\test.txt {Enter}
notepad c:\test.txt {Enter}
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