How do you know if your computer can handle 2000? I have a 866 Intel Plll with 256m of ram, 20g hd,. Also, what would be the correct way to install it. Thanks Jon

Wow that's a loaded question and someone could write a book!! Let's see if I can be brief. 2000 should run fine on your box. You may not find all the drivers you need for printers, scanners, camaras etc. I'd suggest finding what you need before installing. As for the "correct way", what is your confidence level with other operating systems and what OS are you currently running? If it's NT4.0 you can upgrade to 2000 but may run into driver compatibality problems. It will tell you what they are though and let you back out. A fresh clean HD is the best but you have to reload all your other softstuff and that takes time. You also need to save off any data you don't want to loose. It's a very straight forward install if you have done any NT before. One last caution that I'm not sure about is NT can run into problems if installed on a partition larger than 8gig (don't recall the actual size in megs) what happens is if certain system files end up somewhere beyond the 8gig range in the boot partition the OS won't boot because it doesn't know how to find the file beyond that limit. I don't know if this was passed on to 2000. With NTFS it lets you install on a big partition so the trap is set. Unless you know otherwise keep the boot partition below 8gig and you will never have the problem.

Oh! Before you start, partition a section of your hard drive and store the needed drivers there or put them on a CD. Hope this helps,

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Thanks Dennis: Am using windows 98SE. Have split my 20g drive in 1/2. You might have something on the 8g partition. Will have to try that tomorrow. I get an error message that says (setupapi.dll may be corrupt) Thanks again Jon

Win2K will handle large partitions as long as the drive is setup as FAT32 or NTFS. Using Win98SE and having two 10GB partitions means you've got it set to FAT32. Dennis is right, formatting that partition before you install the OS is the best way to go. You can move all of your data to the second partition (should be D drive) then format the primary partition (C drive) and install Win2K to that. You'll have to reinstall all of your apps too.

Your machine exceeds the minimum specs for Win2K so that shouldn't be a problem but there is always that possibility of a piece of hardware that doesn't have a Win2K driver.

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