Installing Win2k Pro on an old 3.1 computer

[giambi77]

I have a VERY old 60MHz comp with either 16 or 32mb of ram. It has windows 3.1, and I want to upgrade it to Win2000 Profesional edition. Would this work with only 16 or 32 megs of RAM? I know it's pretty RAM intensive....

Also, the computer only has a 900mb hard drive...how much space does win2000 take anyways?

I have never installed an operating system over another one before - does anyone have any links to a pages that would tell me in a step-by-step manor?

Thanks for any help you can give me!

 

[Rand]

Minimum system requirements for Windows 2000 Professional states 64MB RAM, Pentium 133MHz, and 2GB Hard disk drive. And believe me, that really is the ABSOLUTE minimum to even run it let alone run it at all well.

Also, you cannot upgrade from 3.1 to Windows 2000, you will need to install fresh. Windows 2000 supports upgrades from Windows 95,98 and NT 3.5.1 or NT 4.0

 

[Vegito]

u might get the error message that it needs 150Mhz or something.. don't remember... u'll have to install fresh not "upgrade" from 3.1 to W2k..

 

[giambi77]

Oh, ok.

I had no idea. How I know it's not possible What about win98? would that work?

 

[Rand]

Windows 98 would run on the system but it wouldnt run at all well, I'd recommend just sticking with Windows 95 OSR2. Win95 should run 'okay' on the system.

 

[angrysand]

Win2K will install if you edit some files in there... forgot exactly where, but can look them up for you if you want...

HOWEVER, it will run painfully slow... as will windows 98 and millennium.

95 should run fine... but do a light installation.. in fact, try 98 light and see how that goes, if it works, fine, if not just put 95 osr2, unless you need some win2k functinality, which i suggest upgrading your hardware for, because although it might be possible to install the os, 3rd party software packages will require more power.