Upgrade from Win98 to Win2K

The Windows 2000 Professional Edition, Microsoft's newest commercial operating system, integrates new technologies on top of the various strengths of Windows 9x to enhance the stability of your system, especially on the web, and you will benefit from the monitoring, control, and configuration of your customer systems.

Before you upgrade, you should make a plan to check all the programs currently running under the current operating system in your machine to make sure that they are compatible with Windows 2000 and that if there are any incompatible programs, you should ask the manufacturer if they have an upgraded product. You should also run the detector Windows Readiness Analyzer to ensure that all hardware and software components are also ready to be continued, and you can find this path 2.6 download address on Microsoft's site is http://download.microsoft.com /download/win2000platform/install/1.0/w9xnt4/en-us/chkupgrd.exe, there are 2.6MB, or if you have a Windows 2000 CD, you can perform X:\i386\ Winnt32/checkupgradeonly, where x is the letter of the optical drive, each of these options helps ensure that each hardware and software component meets Windows 2000 requirements.

After you decide to upgrade, the next step should be to think about how to upgrade. You can uninstall the previous operating system, install Windows 2000 directly, or upgrade your current operating system, or install Windows 2000 as a second operating system. Let's discuss the various ways of the long short, so that you can determine the correct way to install.

First, uninstall the previous operating system

Installing Windows 2000 directly will give you the best of Windows 2000, and you'll likely get a more stable state, but you'll have to spend a lot of time reinstalling various applications and reset network parameters before you do this. Complete one of the following two actions:

If your system supports bootable CDROM, insert Windows 2000 CD-ROM, reboot the machine (in some machines you may need to modify BIOS settings to allow bootable optical drive), follow the on-screen instructions as shown on the screen, where you can choose fat or fat 32 file system, so you can choose to upgrade to NTFS later, if you need the security features provided by NTFS now, you can also choose NTFS directly.

If your system does not support bootable optical drives, you can make 4 installation floppy disks, and follow these steps:

If it is in the Ma-dos state, convert the letter to the directory x:\bootdisk,x for your CD drive. , Run Mak ot and select the drive that makes the installation disk, or in Windows 9x or NT, click Start, Run, and enter "X:\bootdisk\makeboot A:" In the open input box, where x is the letter of your CD drive. , this will make 4 installation disks.

Insert the first installation disk into the reboot machine, and then follow the on-screen instructions to do the following.

Second, upgrade the existing system

Upgrading an existing system means you can keep all of your current network settings and applications. The upgrade process is fairly straightforward and can be completed with the experience of installing Windows. But if your current operating system has some strange problems or bugs, these problems can still haunt you as you install Windows 2000.

Now you are ready to upgrade, insert the Windows 2000 CDROM, click the "Install" that appears, and then there will be a hardware and software wizard that will take you through all of the upgrade processes, and the entire process copies the files itself and completes the upgrade.

Third, install Windows 2000 as a second operating system

Install Windows 2000 as a second operating system, you can enjoy the advantages of the first upgrade and you can retain the various existing applications and network settings, you can say that enjoy the blessing of the people.

Windows can successfully double boot with Windows or Windows NT on FAT, FAT32, or NTFS systems, setting up files and data to be shared between operating systems, which allows you to test Windows without risk in an existing environment 2000 usage status, if tested, you don't feel like Windows 2000, you can remove the Windows 2000 installation folder and modify the boot sector by executing SYS C: In the Ma-dos State of Windows 98. If you feel that you have a connection with Windows 2000, you can delete Windows 98 and delete the Windows 98-related settings in the Boot.ini file.

If you decide to install this way, you can insert the Windows 2000 CD into the CD drive, select the upgrade, click the options for a complete installation, or restart the machine with this disc as mentioned earlier.

No matter what upgrade you decide to adopt, it is best to think before upgrading, and as the saying goes, "Not afraid of 10,000, just in case," maybe there will be accidents yo, so be sure you have to leave a retreat. Windows 2000 does not provide uninstall functionality, so it's a good idea to make a full backup of your existing data and applications. If all goes well, congratulate you on getting a more stable operating system!