Can not install Win2K on older PC

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Colin

I have tried to install Win2K pro on a PC which is about 5 years old and has
a 6.4GB disc.

On various attempts, setup reports that the drive is full or damaged, or
else goes through the motions of formatting the partition and then reports
that it can not format the drive.

I have tried installing Win NT4 and this works OK.

I have installed Win2K many times on new machines without problems.

Is the age of the PC or specifically the BIOS likely to be the reason?

Thanks for any tips.
Colin
 
In case it helps, the BIOS version is Award V4.51PG and the motherboard is
ATC-6240 with Pentium II and 440BX chipset.

Is there any fundamental reason that I can't install Win2K on this setup?

Thanks
Colin
 
Greetings --

Had you made sure that your PC's hardware components were capable
of supporting Win2K? This information will be found at the PC's
manufacturer's web site, and on Microsoft's Hardware Compatibility
List: (http://www.microsoft.com/hcl/default.asp)

You should have, before proceeding, taken a few minutes to ensure
that there were Win2K device drivers available for all of the
machine's components. There may not have been, if the PC had been
specifically designed for Win98/Me. Also bear in mind that PCs
designed for and sold with Win9x very often do not meet Win2K's much
more stringent hardware quality requirements. Win2K is quite
sensitive to borderline defective hardware (particularly motherboards,
RAM and hard drives) that will still support Win9x.


Bruce Chambers

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The PC in question is a bit of a hybrid, so not possible to check it's
pedigree. However, it has been running NT4 for 5 years, does this say
anything about it's suitability for running Win2K?

Colin
 
Greetings --

It means that there's a fair chance that it's too old to support
Win2K. At the very least, it'll probably need a BIOS upgrade to be
made ACPI-compliant.

Bruce Chambers

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Colin said:
In case it helps, the BIOS version is Award V4.51PG and the motherboard is
ATC-6240 with Pentium II and 440BX chipset.

Is there any fundamental reason that I can't install Win2K on this setup?

Thanks
Colin
Click to expand...

You might to try another disk. I am presently posting from a
Soyo 440BX chipset motherboard with an Awards BIOS of the same
version with a Pentium II 400 processor running Win2k Pro. I have
install Win2k pro using both IDE and SCSI disks on this computer
with no trouble or glitches.

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