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Brian - 02 May 2004 14:24 GMT

Hey,
I recently purchased Windows 2000 and was going to put it
on my computer with windows 98SE on it. I left the
installation at fat32 partitions.
Now, when I boot up and come to the OS boot menu, when I
choose Windows 98, Windows 2000 attempts to come up (but
gets errors because it can't find the files... looks in
the directory 98SE is on). I think this has something to
do with the fact that I tried sending parts of the
registry over to 2000. One part I missed until too late
was Windows start directory. It was set to C:\Windows

I tried changing the folder 98 is in and editing the file
boot.ini several times, as I believe it has something to
do with it. Any suggestions that won't lose all the
data?.. Thanks

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Gerry Cornell - 03 May 2004 10:49 GMT

Brian

Can you back up all your data files etc to CD using Windows 2000? If you can it might be easier to reformat and start again.

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> Hey,
> I recently purchased Windows 2000 and was going to put it
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> do with it. Any suggestions that won't lose all the
> data?.. Thanks

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