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Win2K Pro Installation Problem

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by whatnetever

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Hi,

I have been having problems installing Win2K on Pentium (200MHz, 233MHz) and PII (350MHz, 400MHz) systems. The only devices I had in all these systems were video card, hard drive, CD-ROM drive, mouse and keyboard). I have tried 4 different systems, but the result was the same: it freezes up near the end of the installation (right after the Network setup and loading personal settings). What could be the problem? I'm stumped. Please help.

Thank you.

Lose Case

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by mdambrosio70

First of all, Start with a cleanly formatted and partitioned Hard drive, Run drive diagnostics and Then choose the NTFS option from the Win2000 Pro Install menu, If you meet all the min req of win2000 OS then this should allow the install to finish without locking up. The only other thing that could cause it would be attachment to a network vis NIC card which you should remove prior to install if the network setup part is Freezing.

by whatnetever

Thank you. I tried NTFS this time and it worked. Kind of strange because I thought W2K supports both FAT and NTFS....

by isys

So you don't have a network card installed? Then make sure you select the option that it isn't attached to a network. If you don't it will keep trying to start the network.

by whatnetever

In the W2K Pro setup all it did was copying files, doing setup on its own, and then restart. It didn't ask about Network, but after all the installation is done and does a restart, the first thing it asks was a Network login and password, even though I have no network card installed. I could pass that, but right after this it froze up. On the Pentium systems I have 64MB of RAM, and on PII I have 128 or 256MB.

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