ok, heres the deal, the urgent deal I'd have to add as I will have to
do this tomorrow morning so any help is MORE than appreciated.
I tried to get win98 to do the dsl-thang, wont work and quite frankyl,
I like win 2000 better anyway, so I recommended a switch (I am doing
this for a friend of a friend).
Basically what I am asking for: which is the easiest way to do the
switch?
Our starting point is this: win98 system, various partitions/hdds with
files as well as programms. I figure that hardware wont be an issue as
there is nothing more exotic than a swappable hdd and maybe a nokia communicator hookup.
I want to go the least painful way, obviously, for example moving all
files to one partition, formatting it (I dont even know if the
partitions survive a format or if I will have to stick to deleting)
and installing win2k to it.
How can I get rid of win98 clean and simple?
Programms I assume will have to be reinstalled due to registry
entries?
I should probably stick to fat32 on the w2k installation (even though
ntfs is better) since I dont want to go through the change on all the
other hdds and partitions!?
And as a bottom line: I am looking at how many hours of work?
a) The easy way: Upgrade Win98 to Win2000. You can do
it in about one hour. You will get an installation that will
probably work. In the long run it may exhibit some weird
and wonderful problems.
b) The professional way: Do a clean installation of Win2000
into its own folder. This will take you about one hour, plus
the time required to re-install all your applications. This
will give you a rock-solid installation.
a) The easy way: Upgrade Win98 to Win2000. You can do
it in about one hour. You will get an installation that will
probably work. In the long run it may exhibit some weird
and wonderful problems.
b) The professional way: Do a clean installation of Win2000
into its own folder. This will take you about one hour, plus
the time required to re-install all your applications. This
will give you a rock-solid installation.
Having tried both over 4 attempts to put win2k on, once I had installed a
few basic apps (firewall, email, news) I had a system so unstable I went
back to 98SE.
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