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98 to 2K upgrade question

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resinboy

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Hi Everyone:
I am helping out a friend this weekend. He is tired of his 98 box, and wants to go 2K . He has a full version of 2K: can we use that as an upgrade, or is the full version strictly for a fresh format and re- install???


Thanks

Resinboy
 
If it's the actual full version, you should be able to upgrade. But if it's the OEM version, you might not be able to do so. (at least with the OEM version of Win98 you can't, but WIn2k might be different)
 
so, worst case scenario, I 'll back - up his important files to a dif. drive, then start the install right over 98, and see what happens??

Resinboy
 
I would try to avoid upgrading and installing fresh no matter what. MS OS upgrades are always sloppy and 9x to NT kernal ones are the worst.
 
yeah, that was my original intention. I was just trying to save ME some time. However, I don't think I'm getting much help from his end: I asked him to make a list of his pci cards, and to visit the respective websites to make sure there are 2 K drivers available, and also to crack his case to look at his mainboard to see what brand and model it is , for chipset drivers, and all I got was " uhhh, yeah, right". Me thinks Saturday is gonna be a LONG day 🙂

Resiboy
 
win2k is pretty good about drivers. if you get video and network installed right youll be ok. make sure you run a windows update after you install and look for drivers.
 
WIN2K is a piece of cake to install once you get going... I only had to install 2 drivers.. My Video Card (Matrox G400) and my sound card (Creative Live! Platinum). The rest of my PCI cards were detected and the correct drives were installed. My other cards include a Firewire card a SCSI card and an NIC. And I never even had to install my Mouse driver... I have an optical mouse and it runs well without the messy driver it came with so I have not installed the driver for that either. I was connected to my LAN within 2 mins. of starting WIN2K for the first time and I had my video card driver downloaded in a few mins. and running beautifully. If you think it is going to take you a long time your quite wrong. Just follow the instructions to the letter and be sure you have the correct drivers and I think you should have no troubles.
I did a fresh install with the OEM version of the software... as far as I know you can actually upgrade from WIN98 to WIN2K OEM version, but I would prefer a clean install.
 
If you are unsure how W2K will work with the present hardware, use the dual boot install option along with the "install W2k on it's own partition" option. You can then work out the bugs with W2k while still having The Win 9x/ME to fall back on. It's also easy to transfer browser bookmarks and mail messages to W2K - as long as you don't format the target drive with NTFS.
 
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