Going from WIN 98 to WIN 2000 or XP PRO

To perform a FRESH / CLEAN installation, you need to format your hard drive.
Backup all critical files and settings before you format your drive.

Does your computer support booting from a CD?
If so, you need to enter setup at boot, and enable booting from the CD drive.
Then, boot with the XP or W2K CD in the drive, and setup should start automatically.

If your PC does not support boot from CD, you need to create a Boot Floppy set.
For XP, you can download the file for the version you have (home or pro) from Microsoft.
The set is 6-8 floppies.

Then, boot from your floppy drive with the 1st boot floppy in the drive.

Chas

1) setup launches either winnt.exe or winnt32.exe. in your case, setup probably tries to launch winnt32. WINNT.EXE is for DOS-based installations. it is located in the i386 folder of your CD Drive.
The command switches of the WINNT are the ff:
/a - enables accessibility options
/e:command - executes a command before the final phase of the setup
/i:inf_file - specifies the filename of the setup information file. The default is Dosnet.inf. A setup information file is used to automate the installation.
/r:folder - specifies an optional folder to be installed
/rx:folder - specifies an optional folder to be copied.
/s:source_path - specifies the location of the windows 2000 installation files
/t:temp_drive - specifies the location wheretemp files should be copied during install.
/u:script_file - specifies an unattended text file
/udf:id, file - used in conjunction with an unattended text file.

2) another option is to boot either from the setup floppy disks (to do this, createa windows 2000 boot disk using the makeboot command found in the BOOTDISK directory of your windows 2000 installation cd) or boot from the CDROM (you must make the cd drive the top of the boot priority from you system bios).

Hope this helps

rcaluste@heritagepark.com.ph

1) setup launches either winnt.exe or winnt32.exe. in your case, setup probably tries to launch winnt32. WINNT.EXE is for DOS-based installations. it is located in the i386 folder of your CD Drive.
The command switches of the WINNT are the ff:
/a - enables accessibility options
/e:command - executes a command before the final phase of the setup
/i:inf_file - specifies the filename of the setup information file. The default is Dosnet.inf. A setup information file is used to automate the installation.
/r:folder - specifies an optional folder to be installed
/rx:folder - specifies an optional folder to be copied.
/s:source_path - specifies the location of the windows 2000 installation files
/t:temp_drive - specifies the location where temp files should be copied during install.
/u:script_file - specifies an unattended text file
/udf:id, file - used in conjunction with an unattended text file.

2) another option is to boot either from the setup floppy disks (to do this, create a windows 2000 boot disk using the makeboot command found in the BOOTDISK directory of your windows 2000 installation cd) or boot from the CDROM (you must make the cd drive the top of the boot priority from you system bios).

Hope thishelps

rcaluste@heritagepark.com.ph
(weird, my previous post shows user deleted :P)

hi
you need to create start up disk for windows 2000 or winxp. you can create startup disk from cd or microsoft website. after your start up disk turn on your computer and insert setup disk 1 then 2 etc. i am sure it will install win 2000 or winxpfine. you can even format your harddisk too.