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Installing Windows 2000 over Windows 98

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by lindsay.d

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I am trying to install Windows 2000 Professional over Windows 98 SE. After going through the "Preparing data Base routine, I get the Message "Windows is looking for a file not supplied by the program". I am using a system with an AMD 650 Celeron chip with 192mb Ram on an MSI ATX IR3 Mainboard.

Does anyone have a solution to this problem. Microsoft has been of no help so far.

David Lindsay

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by technhouse

Usually the program that an OS installation is looking for is the installation file of the previous version. In this case it would be the Windows 98 install file. If you have a Win98 disk, you might reinstall Win98, making sure the installation files are copied to your C: drive. I think the name of that folder is just Win 98? I seen to remember that Windows 98 SE does that automatically (copies the file to C:)Then try to install Windows 2000 again. Hope this works!

by lindsay.d

The solution offered did not solve the problem,I finally did a clean install and everything worked well.

Thanks for te effort.

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