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Forum: The Classroom Topic: need help! emergency! started by: CatKnight Posted by CatKnight on Feb. 15 2001,23:22
i was trying to install windows ME on my room mates computer. his puter was so slow because of all the bundled software crap. so i did the same procedure on his that i did to mine, that is booted to dos, deleted everything, then boot on ME cd. but i have 3 problems. 1-it is taking a rediculuously long time to delete everything...i think something might be wrong. 2-i cant seem to boot from the ME cd so im doing 2000 instead, and 3-after the intial installation thingy for 2000, it boots but gives me the 98 menu options, then goes to the command prompt cuz windows doesn't exist anymore. it doesn't continue with the installation. HELP!
Posted by hal0 on Feb. 15 2001,23:59
first off, this is in the wrong forum. second, i'll tell you what to do.1) format c: ------------------ Posted by cr0bar on Feb. 16 2001,00:01
Silly CatKnight, you should *always* reformat the hard drive when changing/upgrading operating systems, especially Microsoft operating systems.Here is how I would do this: -Boot off the ME CD and then format c: The reason you should always copy the .cab files and install off the hard drive is that in the future when you're installing new hardware or drivers, Windows won't ask you to stick in the CD. It will know where to look. No offense, but since you don't appear to be able to install ME properly, I wouldn't recommend doing 2K. If you insist, adapt the above procedures. Note that the installer executable for NT is called "winnt.exe", not "setup.exe". I also wouldn't advise converting the drive to NTFS (Win2K's setup will ask you if you want to do this). Posted by kuru on Feb. 16 2001,03:04
the thing that sucks most about NT4 is that you've got your choice of either fat16 of NTFS.since fat16 abhorrs partitions over 2 gigs (this happened when i got my 30 gig drive), i ended up with NTFS i didn't want. leave it to microsoft to fuck things up. ------------------ Posted by DuSTman on Feb. 16 2001,03:07
I hear an early release of nt4 also supported OS2 partitions (though did not have the facility to create them). If i remember correctly support for this was removed in SP3.
Posted by CatKnight on Feb. 16 2001,03:20
ok well i installed win2k on my puter with no problems. i couldn't format my hd (or my room mates) because we have 10 gigs of mp3's and such and noplace to put them. anyways i managed to install win2k on my room mate's computer, but it wont boot up now. while saying "starting up" it freezes when the progress bar gets to the end. shit.also i cant access the cd drive when booting up in dos unless i boot from the 2k cd which starts the installation This message has been edited by CatKnight on February 16, 2001 at 10:23 PM Posted by CatKnight on Feb. 16 2001,03:42
ok i got it to boot (win2k) in safe mode. he has a voodoo3 3000 and some crap sound card (i think its an ess alegro). i cant connect to the internet because i dont know his ip address so i'll have to do that when he gets back
Posted by CatKnight on Feb. 16 2001,23:53
ok since nt wasnt working i copied the me cd to the hd then deleted nt then installed me. its working now except for sound. he has an ess tech alegro and the sound drivers dont work for it. anyone know how to get this fixed?
Posted by damien_s_lucifer on Feb. 17 2001,01:28
the reason deleting the Windows directory took so long is because smartdrv.exe wasn't loaded. Not a big deal, it just makes it run a LOT slower.As for the sound drivers, try < Winfiles > and see if there's an updated driver for the sound card. |