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  • April 20, 2000 at 1:19 am #2081481

    Installing Clean Version Of Windows 2000

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    by jmoore · about 24 years ago

    Is it possible to format my HD to get rid of Win 98 2nd Edition and perform a clean Windows 2000 install using the upgrade cd?

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    • April 20, 2000 at 4:53 am #3899643

      Installing Clean Version Of Windows 2000

      by csheltcomp · about 24 years ago

      In reply to Installing Clean Version Of Windows 2000

      If I am not mistaken, during the install(upgrade), it will give you the option of a clean install/

    • April 20, 2000 at 8:08 am #3899624

      Installing Clean Version Of Windows 2000

      by 1ronman · about 24 years ago

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      Yes! do a system level format with a 98 boot disk (make sure that your boot disk loads the drivers for your cd-rom drive first though-just in case…). You cant just load windows 2000 from a dos prompt however as when you try to run the setup.exe, it says that you cant run that in dos mode. Go into your bios and set the boot sequence to boot from from your cd-rom drive (this option may not be available in an older pc) and let windows do its stuff.

    • April 20, 2000 at 12:03 pm #3899610

      Installing Clean Version Of Windows 2000

      by saihib · about 24 years ago

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      The WIN2K CD is bootable. Just reformat your HDD and boot from the CD if your MOB allows you to.

    • April 20, 2000 at 1:23 pm #3899607

      Installing Clean Version Of Windows 2000

      by ratherbfishing · about 24 years ago

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      I have not tried this with an upgrade CD..but..here is another method that works:
      Use the installation floppies, this will allow you to delete and recreate the system partition during setup. (you cannot do this if you boot from the CDROM because ituses diskspace on the system partition). If you need to create installation floppies, first open a command window, go to the i386 directory on the cd, and type winnt /o/x.

    • April 21, 2000 at 1:55 am #3899589

      Installing Clean Version Of Windows 2000

      by dmiles · about 24 years ago

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      The clean install will have to detect a previous version of NT files on the system and will upgrade from there,it has been my expierence that the software manufature are now coding upgrades during programming to look for a previous version,so why not load WINNT4,then do a clean install as a upgrade option.

    • April 21, 2000 at 5:05 am #3899565

      Installing Clean Version Of Windows 2000

      by taz3030 · about 24 years ago

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      You should be able to explore the cd and find the cab files dir
      then you can format the drive and copy the cab files to a dir
      then go to that dir and type setup and if ask for version verification and you can win98se
      path it to win98 dir

    • April 21, 2000 at 6:20 am #3899562

      Installing Clean Version Of Windows 2000

      by olopez · about 24 years ago

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      Be aware that you will need a different cd key for the clean install you can not use the same one used for an upgrade.

    • April 21, 2000 at 8:25 am #3899548

      Installing Clean Version Of Windows 2000

      by rmmcp · about 24 years ago

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      Be aware that Windows 2000 is not a direct upgrade for Windows 98/98SE. It is an upgrade for NT Server/Workstation.
      Windows ME will be out later this year. That is the upgrade for Win 98/98SE.

    • April 29, 2000 at 5:29 am #3899177

      Installing Clean Version Of Windows 2000

      by alacrity · about 23 years, 11 months ago

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      Just did this last night, Boot from the CD and the install will start. Part way into the routine it will ask you for your old OS CD. Replace the 2000 upgrade CD in the drive. after it gets a good look a the disk it will ask for the 2000 CD again.The rest of the install went without asking for the old CD again.

      Neal

    • May 7, 2000 at 5:20 am #3898634

      Installing Clean Version Of Windows 2000

      by bshapess · about 23 years, 11 months ago

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      I am pretty sure you just need to have a setup.exe file in a windows directory from win98.

    • September 20, 2000 at 7:03 pm #3735472

      Installing Clean Version Of Windows 2000

      by jmoore · about 23 years, 7 months ago

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