hi frank,
well the first thing that comes to mind is that with the upgrade, you are permanently saying goodbye to win98. hasta la vista, baby. point being, if win2k doesn't cooperate with you, your hardware, or your software, there's no turning back. i don't know how important that is, just mentioning it.
of course you know that you should first run the downloadable windows2000 readiness analyzer tool, and get any drivers and software upgrades together. also have the w2k service pack 1 ready, though the os runs well enough without it.
yes, i am dual booting w2kpro with w98se. i use partition magic to create multiple partitions, then put the two os's on separate drives on the same physical disk. this, of course, gave me the luxury of having w98se around in case w2k was too contrary to deal with. i did a clean install of w2k, but if you really want to stick with the upgrade package, you could copy your current os to a separate partition, then upgrade it and dual boot with your old os. make sense?
i'm going to post some hot win2000 links, several of which i relied upon heavily when installing the os. i'll note which ones they are with (*). also there are some excellent reference links for tweaking and optimizing and all that good stuff. for instance, you will be asked to decide whether or not you want win2k to be NTFS or fat32. have that researched. i chose NTFS for w2k. it's best, i understand. an odd result is that w2k can 'see' w98se, but not the other way around.
first, here's a post that might be worth a quick glance…. #reply-14788048
then, here are the hot links i promised....
microsoft.com
(*) worldowindows.com
microsoft.com
(*) smartcomputing.com
smartcomputing.com
smartcomputing.com
smartcomputing.com
smartcomputing.com
smartcomputing.com
smartcomputing.com
216.242.22.13|AMP|+2000+Forum&number=4&DaysPrune=30&LastLogin=
then, this from windows-help.net.....
"Windows 2000 File System: NTFS
One of the first choices you have to make when you install (or upgrade
to) Windows 2000 is the file system. FAT(32) or NTFS.
This is really an easy choice. There's only one reason not to choose
NTFS; if you need to have an operating system which can't read NTFS
(Win9x, MS-DOS etc.) to be able to access the partition. This
limitation only applies to the local machine. If you want to access an
NTFS drive across a network, any OS can access the NTFS partition."
a more involved article on the above topic follows here:
windows-help.net
and finally, you ask...
"Some Windows upgrades will install on a bare disk (I have heard) and only ask you to put in your old Windows CD momentarily for verification. Will Win2000 do that?"
i don't know. <g3>
let me know if this stuff helps or if there is anything else i can do.
:)
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