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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dan Spangenberg who wrote (10602)	3/6/2000 7:48:00 AM
From: wily	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

NTFS in Win2000 can read and write to a FAT32 partition. So bringing over files from your Win98 should be no problem. NT4 cannot do that without third party addins. That's very good to know. I'll try it out. Still no luck installing. I tried it with a smaller (990MB) FAT32 partition on a WD 3.2G HDD. It seems like it doesn't even get to the point where the drive or the partition would be an issue yet. It happens on the second boot disk, where it says (claims) that it can't load the hal.dll file. (hal stands for hardware abstraction layer). My understanding (read: guess) is that the files from the floppy are being loaded into main memory rather than being copied to a drive. Then once these files are loaded, it will ask for the CDROM and begin copying stuff from there to a HDD. As I say, that is just my guess. I did have some problems creating the floppies. Some worked and some didn't. Occasional write errors. I'm wondering if this could be part of the problem. But I've tried installing on two different computers, each with the same version (but different) BH6 boards, and they consistently hang up at the hal file. Oh, and the beta-server boot disk floppies which I installed from successfully with the BP6 board hang up the same way at hal.dll . I'll probably just get the BP6 board. Thanks for the help and the info. wily