Win2K

I upgraded my Win98SE to Windows 2000 Professional to try to eliminate some device driver problems. Once I had my OS upgraded, for some reason my monitor was a default VGA and I was unable to upgrade the driver so I started to install some driver software programs I had from when I bought my system. Something happened as a result of the install and Win2K started looping an endless loop - it would go through the restart and get to the initial Windows screen and then restart automatically again! I tried all the Win2K fixes, repairs, etc., and finally decided to do what they refer to as a "clean install". I expected it to install over the other version but no....it installed a 2nd OS and now I have WIN NT and 2 versions of WIN2K installed on my hard drive. I have 2 slave drives from my old pc that are classified as drives D & E. I moved all my personal stuff over to those drives because I was going to just erase the C drive and start from scratch. It won't let me format the hard drive without "dismounting" my other drives. WHAT DO I DO NOW??? I've never had so much difficulty!! Please help!!!

I think, you should just load from some bootable CD/floppy (if you don't have one - ask your friends to make a boot floppy, doesn't matter what Windows do they have - you just need the DOS console), and then since you copied all the stuff you want to keep, just format the whole drive.

if you have a windows 98 boot floppy, if you dont go to http://www.bootdisk.com/ get a 98se oem ,now make sure your bios are set to boot floppy first and start your system up with the floppy in, even if the screen says you have no partition and tells you about viruses(does this if you have ntfs on the partition) at the A:\FDISK type in fdisk just like that. select option 4 to view the partitions. see what drive C: is listed as being, the use the esc key to go back and select option 3, delete it, now go back to the menu and create a primary dos partition. once this is done it will want to be restarted, so restart the computer with the disk still in. this time at the A:\FORMAT C: /S or A:\FORMAT C: /U
or just A:\FORMAT C:
when the format is done, make sure your bios is set to boot the cd first, drop in the 2000 cd, use the boot disk if you have to, can be made from the cd by exploring the contents and going to the bootdisk folder. and set up your system, can, which i recommend, use ntfs when asked if you want it.

Okay...I was finally able to reformat the C drive by going through recovery console of Win2K CD so it got rid of both versions! Thank God. My concern now is that when I first installed Win2K, it did not recognize my monitor and did not allow me to change the driver for it. Anyone have any suggestions on how I can change the driver? I've got the inf file for the monitor but it's not letting me change the driver first so it says the inf file is wrong!
Is Win2K always this difficult? Thanks a lot for your help!

Okay...I was finally able to reformat the C drive by going through recovery console of Win2K CD so it got rid of both versions! Thank God. My concern now is that when I first installed Win2K, it did not recognize my monitor and did not allow me to change the driver for it. Anyone have any suggestions on how I can change the driver? I've got the inf file for the monitor but it's not letting me change the driver first so it says the inf file is wrong!
Is Win2K always this difficult? Thanks a lot for your help!

It's a simple matter of downloading a correct Windows 2000 driver for your video card. The Windows 98 driver would not work and if you have the original cdrom for the video card that MAY NOT have the W2K driver. Download from the vendor's website, install it, reboot and your card should be good to go. Now, the monitor does not have a driver. It has that .INF file which is specifications for sizing, refresh rate, etc. INF disk for the monitor should work, but you can download for name-brand monitors (Panasonic, Samsung, etc.) and they are installed and then on a reboot, your W2K should recognize the monitor and allow all refresh rates it supports.