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12-30-2004, 11:31 AM
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WIN ME to WIN2k Issues
My Dell Dimension 4100 would boot to the windows start screen and then the blue screen of death. I decided to fdisk with the thought of going to win2k. The fdisk went off w/o a hitch but now I am having trouble getting win2k to install. The disk will not run in DOS mode. I tried setting the BIOS to boot from disk first but nothing. Any suggestions??? Thanks in advance.
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12-30-2004, 02:38 PM
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There is no DOS on win 2000.
zero the drive and try the win 2000 disc again. |
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12-31-2004, 02:02 PM
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You have to boot with the 2000 CD. If it won't boot, I bet it's a burned copy and we don't support that here. If it's a genuine CD, post back after verifying the CD drive is the first device in your boot order.
A Dimension 4100 will run Win2k VERY nicely if you have 256m+ of ram and be 10 times more stable than with ME. You will need to download the Win2000 drivers from Dell, 2K doesn't have native support for everything. You do not need to fdisk or format first - the 2K setup will do it all for you. Tell it to delete all partitions and just install 2K in the resulting unpartitioned space - and choose NTFS, not FAT. Last edited by glc; 12-31-2004 at 02:05 PM. |
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