Upgrade to Windows 2000 Professional 1

[123gad]

I have a win98 machine, with a external CD/RW USB connection, when I try to upgrade to W2K Prof. I receive after going to a few steps, CD ROM not found.
I went to the website, there are no drivers necessary for W2K or Win98.

Any ideas how I can avoid that problem and upgrade to W2K?

thanks

 

[BionicJohn]

Hi, 123gad,

Are you upgrading a laptop or a desktop PC?
Are you upgrading using the Win2K CD in the USB CD/RW?

Can you copy all the files from the Win2K CD to your hard disk, and then run setup from there? Are are you saying you have another CD drive and the USB CD drive is not detected?

Having said all that, my experience is that Win2K installed onto a freshly FDISKed and formatted drive is the best option, and far more stable in the longer term.

Iechyd da! John
22:47 25/11/2003 GMT

 

[Cervantes]

Easiest way I've found is to copy the files to the HD, restart into DOS mode, and run from there.

If you want to install from an external device and it's at least getting into the Setup, you need to get USB drivers for your system, and drivers for the CDRW, slap them on a floppy, and then when setup says "Push F(something) to install additional drivers" (or something to that effect, I forget now), you hit the key and it reads the drivers off the floppy and installs the device for Windows setup. I've done this with some nasty raid controllers and CD drives, and it works, so I would assume it would work with USB CR/RWs.

If you can't get into setup, you'll have to make a boot floppy with DOS USB and CDRW drivers (or at least CD drivers that work with that model CDRW), boot to it, and then manually start the Setup.exe in the i386 folder on the CD.

Hope this helps!
Cerv

 

[tlindsay42]

F6 to install additional drivers
F7 for non-ACPI compliant machines

Thanks,
-Big T

 

[123gad]

thanks to cervantes, I got it done, copied the files on to the Hard Drive, no problems,

Thanks