Re: Upgrade from 98 will not complete

Be advised that upgrades from win9x 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 install CD-Rom or setup disks. The set of four install disks can be created from your Windows 2000 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.

(Note: If your drive controller is not natively supported then you'll want to boot the Windows 2000 install CD-Rom. Then *F6* very early and very important (at setup is inspecting your system) in the setup to prevent drive controller detection, and select S to specify additional drivers. Then later you'll be prompted to insert the manufacturer supplied Windows 2000 driver for your drive controller in drive "A")

Setup inspects your computer's hardware configuration and then begins to install the Setup and driver files. When the Windows 2000 Professional screen appears, press ENTER to set up Windows 2000 Professional.

Read the license agreement, and then press the F8 key to accept the terms of the license agreement and continue the installation.

When the Windows 2000 Professional Setup screen appears, all the existing partitions and the unpartitioned spaces are listed for each physical hard disk. Use the ARROW keys to select the partitions Press D to delete an existing partition, If you press D to delete an existing partition, you must then press L (or press ENTER, and then press L if it is the System partition) to confirm that you want to delete the partition. Repeat this step for each of the existing partitions When all the partitions are deleted press F3 to exit setup, (to avoid unexpected drive letter assignments with your new install) then restart the pc then when you get to this point in setup again select the unpartitioned space, and then press C to create a new partition and specify the size (if required). Windows will by default use all available space.

Be sure to apply SP4 and these two below to your new install before connecting to any network. Internet included. (sasser, msblast)
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

Then

Rollup 1 for Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?amp;displaylang=en&familyid=B54730CF-8850-4531-B52B-BF28B324C662&displaylang=en


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.




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"scooterspal" wrote:
Hello:

I've never had a problem before... but on this one P166 laptop with W98 I cannot get the upgrade to w2k to work at all. Here is the error I get
about 2/3 the way in:

WINNT32 caused an invalid page fault in
module KERNEL32.DLL at 0167:bff88396.
Registers:
EAX=c00259a8 CS=0167 EIP=bff88396 EFLGS=00010216
EBX=02cb87e4 SS=016f ESP=02cafeac EBP=02cb0024
ECX=00000003 DS=016f ESI=00000001 FS=230f
EDX=bff76855 ES=016f EDI=02003f98 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
53 56 57 8b 75 10 8b 38 33 db 85 f6 75 2d 8d b5
Stack dump:

Tried it 4 times. Defragged the drive. There is over 600megs of
space available on this 2 gig drive. Ran Norton Win Doctor twice and fixed what there was to fix. There were two problems it cound not fix having to do with "instashield/professional/runtime... missing file "mscoree.dll"

Is this the problem and can anyone offer a solution?

.

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