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"jasee" <jasee@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:ah939k$ife$1@helle.btinternet.com...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Keith Willshaw" <keith_willshaw@no-spam.compuserve.com>
> Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.win95,demon.tech.pc
> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 9:06 AM
> Subject: Re: Upgrading to Win 2K
>
>
> >
> > "Andy Mabbett" <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote in message
> > news:ch7cIfA6wzN9EwUw@pigsonthewing.org.uk...
> > > In the near future, I hope to upgrade this machine from Win 98SE to
Win
> > > 2k; is there a site or FAQ which will give me an overview of the
> > > differences?
> > >
> >
> > Win2k is basically Windows NT5.0 , as such its more stable
> > but may not run some older DOS programs , especially
> > those which make calls direct to hardware.
> >
> > http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/howitworks/default.asp
> >
> > > Are there likely to be any software or hardware incompatibility
issues,
> > > and where might these be documented?
>
> You can look on the cd for hcl.txt. also Pro1.txt. and Pro2.txt
>
> You can run setup just to check for basic compatability issues (only
without
> installing) using winn32 /checkupgradeonly
> > >
> >
> > No you should be fine but if in doubt take a look at the
> > hardware compatibility list
> >
> > http://www.microsoft.com/hcl/default.asp
> > http://www.winnetmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=8822
> >
> > > I'd like to install Win 2k on a separate partition - were can I learn
> > > about partitioning under that OS?
> > > --
> >
> > You have two choices FAT and NTFS,  FAT32 is
>
^^^^^^^^^^
> > not supported
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Pardon! W2K and above support (recognise Fat32) (NT4 and below
didn't/don't)
>

Sorry I should have said 'fully supported'

Windows 2000 cant handle FAT 32 partitions larger than 32 Gb or
files larger than 4 Gb and it doesnt support domains or the
security functions available under NTFS

>
> >
> > Personally I'd recommend NOT upgrading on top of WIn 98
> > but reformatting the drive and reinstalling fromscratch.
> > You'll have much less problem long term that way.
>
> Personally, I'd suggest dual booting to separate partitions would be my
> recommendation if you've a program to shrink the existing big partition,
if
> thats what you've got. (like partition magic)
>
> >
> > You may also want to consider going straight to XP
> > which is really Windows NT 5.1
>
> That may be a step too far <g>
>

Actually I have been running XP since December
and its been very stable and I'm very pleased with it.

Keith