Installation problems with Windows 2000

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Phill Black

I've been having problems trying to perform an in place
upgrade of Windows 98 to Windows 2000. Basically the
setup goes fine until I reach the first restart point.
When I enter the "blue-screen" part of the setup I'm told:

Setup cannot find a CD Rom drive

Make sure your CD Rom drive is on and properly connected
to your computer. If it is a SCSI CD Rom drive make sure
your SCSI devices are properly terminated. See your
computer or SCSI adapter documentation for more
information.

This error occurs whether I chose a clean install or an in
place setup and seems odd because before this the
computers spends about 20 minutes copying files from the
Windows 2000 CD.

Does anyone have any ideas what I can do about this error?

Thanks,

phill
 
While an upgrade of Win98 to Win2000 is possible, you
would end up with a fare more robust and stable system
if you did a clean install. I recommend that you back up
all your data, then boot them machine with your Win2000
CD and allow it to format you disk. This should fix your
problem.
 
Thanks for the info, but I'm not sure how I boot to the Cd
drive in Windows 98?

phill
 
You don't boot under Win98; you change your BIOS
setting so that your machine boots off the CD rather
than off the hard disk.
 
Before you shoot yourself in the foot, make sure you have ALL of the
Windows 2000 drivers for the hardware in your computer, including the
motherboard.
 
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