From 98 to 2000

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I updated my operating system to 2000 using the overwrite option. I changed
the drive to NTFS.

Everything looked like it went in. I put in my password and then
immediately after it logs on, it saves settings and logs off.

Anyone know what I can do to log it in, and stay logged in?

I tried both of the logins that are on the machine, to no avail. I know the
password is correct.
 
Your problem is probably the leading edge of a cascade of errors that
often cause great grief to folks who "upgrade" from W9x to W2k instead
of doing a clean W2k install. You'd most likely be MUCH better off just
blowing the OS away completely and installing W2k from scratch.

Intuitively it seems like an upgrade is less hassle, but in practice it
seldom is. There's an awful lot of history about this in these NGs. All
sorts of old registry settings get misinterpreted, bad drivers get left
in, and other ugly subtleties send you up the wall. The Old Hands pretty
uniformly advise bulldozing the o9ld system completely.

If you need to save data you've kept in the boot/system partition, and
cannot now get in to back it up elsewhere...there are ways to handle
that problem.
I updated my operating system to 2000 using the overwrite option. I changed
the drive to NTFS.

Everything looked like it went in. I put in my password and then
immediately after it logs on, it saves settings and logs off.

Anyone know what I can do to log it in, and stay logged in?

I tried both of the logins that are on the machine, to no avail. I know the
password is correct.
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Ripper said:
I updated my operating system to 2000 using the overwrite option. I changed
the drive to NTFS.

Everything looked like it went in. I put in my password and then
immediately after it logs on, it saves settings and logs off.

Anyone know what I can do to log it in, and stay logged in?

I tried both of the logins that are on the machine, to no avail. I know the
password is correct.
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Your problem is most likely caused by Windows using an
incorrect drive letter for the system drive, e.g. E: instead of
C:. The problem is fixable but it requires one of the following:
- A networked PC
- Another PC running Win2000/XP
- A Bart PE boot CD
- A parallel installation of Win2000 on the same disk
The repair process is not easy. A far better solution would
be to do a clean installation of Win2000, as recommended
by Dan Seur.
 
I have MANY computers running XP. How can I repair that way to copy my data
and do a clean install?
 
That's two questions!

To copy your data, install your disk as a slave disk in some
WinXP PC, then copy the Win98 data to the WinXP disk.

If the machine is reachable via the network, run regedit.exe
from an XP PC, then do this:
1. Load the registry of the problem PC.
2. Navigate to HKLM/SYSTEM/MountedDevices/
3. Check the values that look like so: "\DosDevice\E:"
One of them is probably E: rather than C:. Rename it!
Alternatively you can delete all such values, to force
Windows to re-assign them.
 
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