Desinstall windows 2000

[manny78]

Gotta girl who just installed windows 2000 (she had win 98 before) on her laptop, but for many unknown reasons she cant access the net, so were just wondering how the hell do you go back to win 98 or reinstall it. I know that with win 98 or ME its easy since you only need to go in DOS and type uninstal.exe, but how do you desinstall win 2000.

 

[enrage]

use your win98 boot up disk, format it and fdisk it.

 

[WODIN]

You probably just need to update the drivers to her internet access. Wether that be cable, dsl, or modem. You should have drivers on diskettes she recieved with her system. If you reformat you are going to have to go through this process anyway.

 

[TheProject]

There is no true "upgrade path" from the 95/98 family of OS's to the NT/2K family. It saves some settings, and that's about it, so there's no uninstall method. You're pretty much forced to do a reinstall of the old OS.

That could be done from a DOS boot disk without formatting, but I always try to reformat when I do an OS reinstall. Just seems to run better for me.

 

[the Prince]

why can't she get on the net?

be more specific....

it's possible that she needs to update the modem drivers.

 

[The MN Bulk]

2000 is a completly different OS then 95/98. For future reference tell her to back up all her data and format that bitch. The upgrade from 95/98 really messes with the registry.

I would agree with the other guys on here try to fix the problem instead of going back. My guess is you need new drivers for the PCMCIA modem or NIC. If this is a dial up connection you need to redo the connection. If it is cable or DSL make sure that TCP/IP is set to look for a DHCP and DNS server. Let me know if any of this doesn't make sense.

If you decide to just format the computer I believe you actually have to make the 4 W2K boot up disks and boot from them. Other wise the system will be looking for NTLDR.COM.

 

[TheProject]

If you decide to just format the computer I believe you actually have to make the 4 W2K boot up disks and boot from them. Other wise the system will be looking for NTLDR.COM.

Nah, fdisk will delete NTFS partitions as a non-DOS, assuming that the partition was converted to NTFS5. This is something that you should find out before you try to do anything else.

Whatever you do, don't install WinME.

 

[talonracer]

Start up disk my man. You need to create one and also, since win2k runs off a NTFS partion not a FAT32 you'll need to fdisk that bitch too because win98 won't run on the win2k partion...

Actually is can run on a FAT 32 partition also..............I installed mine on a FAT 32 partition and it worked great. I upgraded to Windows XP tho its alot better.

 

[Steroid_Virgin]

This is what you do, first you have to make sure the hardware in the laptop is on the HCL.. (hardware compatibility list) You can search technet, or microsofts site, just type HCL.. Also, why do you see if her NIC is working properly in device manager.. win 2000 is very interner friendly, (TRUST ME).. switching back to 98 is the bitch answer.. fix the problem.

 

[manny78]

Thanks a lot bros for your help