NEED an answer quick! please!

[Joony]

ok i just got an ASUS A7V133 and i installed win 98 then upgraded to win2k and win2k won't install because it can't find a file during the install and ive tried installing it like 3 times and it still can't find the file and my cd dosen't look scratched so wahts wrong!?

 

[rommel]

is this a burned cd of a licensed copy of 2k...and have you tried installing on its own partition...boot setup from the cd by changing the boot sequence in the bios and try installing it to a partition other then the one 98 is on to rule out some conflict its having with the "upgrade"

 

[Joony]

ok i will try that, but could the mobo be doing this?

 

[datallah]

its not the mobo

 

[bozo1]

Upgrading 98 to W2K = bad

 

[Joony]

so install win me and upgrade?!

 

[bozo1]

No, just install W2K. Leave 98 and Me out of the picture unless you plan to dualboot.

 

[Joony]

ITS NOT THE FULL VERSION!

 

[bozo1]

Doesn't matter. Upgrade and full are the same. The setup routine in the upgrade version just requires you to prove that you own a previous version. It'll ask you to insert your 98 or Me CD for proof. After that, there is no difference.

 

[boyz]

well download a full version, of course if illegal but if you pay for high speed you might as well download it.

 

[Joony]

iam reformatting right now and will try to boot with the win2k cd

 

[joinT]

Good Luck.

If you need a Pro2A, I might be selling mine

 

[Joony]

ok i tried booting with the win2k cd and i get an invalid system disk, when i boot with floppy and go d:setup i get a "this program cannot be used in dos"

 

[Joony]

iam installing win me then i will try to upgrade to win2k

 

[MrCodeDude]

Just get the retail version copied
That should solve all your problems, who cares if it's illegal
-- mrcodedude

 

[Joony]

yes who cares "FBI busts open MrCodeDude door and arrests him"

 

[Joony]

ok, win me upgrade to win2k dosen't work, maybe my cd is really scratched...

 

[GustySoul]

Used to run a combo similar to that (original A7V + Win2K Upgrade). I was able to do so successfully.

You don't have to install Win9x first or anything, like bozo1 said you just need to boot from the Win2K Upgrade CD-ROM and then during the install process it will ask you to put in your Win9x/NT disc, for just a minute, just to verify that you own a copy.

Try the following...

1. Make sure the Win2K disc is in the primary CD-ROM

2. Make sure all IDE devices are on the VIA Southbridge not the
Promise IDE controller. (I always had to do this, but I heard that
there is a way to install with the Promise controller)

3. Change the boot order in BIOS to boot off the primary CD-ROM first,
and the Hard Drive second. The floppy drive can be last.

Everything should work OK from then. Good luck.

 

[bozo1]

Assuming his copy is legal and bootable. If it is just the flat files burned to a CD, it's not bootable.

 

[foofoo]

try swapping out the memory module.
i had an install of w2k error out repeatedly in a similar way and finally traced it to bad ram.

good luck

 

[Joony]

ram can make a file not found!? damn...

 

[JesusCow]

you cant install win2k like that, you have to have the 4 boot disks, look on the win2k cd... there is a dir called "bootdisk" make the floppies and boot with the first one in and follow the steps

 

[TheOverlord]

i always just copy over the i386 folder to an i386 folder i made on c: then run winnt...still called that even with 2k, not sure if the upgrade works in the same manner, tho from prior posts it sounds like it should...

 

[teatheif]

I just wanted to tell you that you can not upgrade Windows ME to Windows 2000. Here is the documentation from Microsoft about upgrades Upgrading from previous versions of windows. You will have to do a fresh install of Windows 2000 if you have ME. I just wanted to let you know.