Upgrading to W2k 1

[aharrisreid]

I currently have a HDD with the following partitions...
C: 2G (FAT) Boot-up drive for Win98 (no other drives are visible)
D: 2G (NTFS) Boot-up drive for NT workstation (all other drives visible)
E: 4G (NTFS)
F: 3.5G (NTFS)

At present Win98 is only retained so that my children can run their games, most of which require DirectX, which doesn't run on NT. I've heard that Win2k will run DirectX, can anyone confirm this?

If so, my plan upgrade the entire PC to run on Win2k only from drive C:. Can I do this and retain the current drive partitions, or will I have to repartition from scratch.

The PC has 12G HDD, 64Mb RAM, 350MhZ Pentium II processor - is this too underpowered to run Win2k sucessfully? If so, what should I be looking to upgrade these figures to?

Any other stuff I need to watch out for?

Any advice would be appreciated.
Alan Harris-Reid

 

[MasterRacker]

I don't know about the DirectX. You want more RAM though. At least 128MB. I just put Win2K on a 200Mhz K6 with 256 MB RAM onto a 2.1 GB SCSI drive. It's a little sluggish but not too bad and noticeably faster thatn Win98 was. You might be pleasantly surprised.


Here's what I would do.
Install Win2K over your NT and test your games. Assuming they run: Install it on your C: drive.

It won'yt hurt to keep all the partitions although I would re-do it to have a 4-8GB system partition for applications and OS and the rest as a data partition.
Jeff
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[aharrisreid]

Jeff, thanks for the reply.

>Here's what I would do.
Install Win2K over your NT and test your games. Assuming they run: Install it on your C: drive.<

Makes sense, but I don't really want two installations of W2K on the same disk - there would be no point. And as I want all drives to be NTFS (is it still called this in W2K)how would I convert the FAT ON C:?

>It won'yt hurt to keep all the partitions<
I am happy with the current partitions, but ultimately I want the W2K o/s installed on C: only.

Regards,
Alan

 

[MasterRacker]

You're putting it on d: just to test your games without wrecking '98. I suppose you could put Win2k on one of the other partitions instead if you didn't want to mess with NT. If everything works, you reformat c: and put a clean install of Win2k there as your master OS. The second copy of Win2K could then be deleted.

Yes, it is still NTFS and that's definitely the best file system to use.
Jeff
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[aharrisreid]

Jeff, thanks for the reply.

Ok, I understand now.

I have been told that the C: drive at 2G may be too small for my main W2K o/s partition. How (without 3rd party tools?) can I remove the F: partition and add the freed-up 3.5G to the C: partition? Would I have to convert C: to NTFS first? Is it possible?

Regards,
Alan

 

[bermond]

Hi

I upgraded my laptop Dell latitude CPX from windows NT to Windows 2000 pro.

Before upgrade I uninstall softex card contoler softex power management softex bay manager.

During the upgrade windows 2000 found softex manager.

Now when I want to standby my laptop the screen is frozen, and I have to reboot the system.

Is anybody can help me ?

Thanks

 

[MasterRacker]

Alan,
You need 3rd party tools to resize partitions. If you're in a position to back up your data, after verifying that your games work, wipe the whole system, install Win2K from CD and build the partitions the way you want them from the setup program. Win2K will fit fine on a 2GB system although you will probably be best with only putting basic applications also on C: and puttin games and other applications on a different partition.

bermond,
Generally, even with Win2K I don't recommend an upgrade, only a clean install. This is a different question that the current thread. You should start anew thread with this questino.
Jeff
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[aharrisreid]

Jeff,

Once again, many thanks for your reply. I think I know what I'm doing now (famous last words!)

Alan