Upgrade freeze

I am in the middle of upgrading my PC from NT4 SP6 to Win2kPro.
However, during the setup wizard, my PC will freeze - no HDD activity, no mouse movement, and no response to Ctrl-Alt-Del. I originally ran the upgrade program from within NT (winnt32.exe), but it gave the above mentioned problem. I have since tried booting with a Win98CD to get a DOS prompt, and tried insdtalling from there, but no difference. All power saving is disabled in the BIOS. I had a simialr problem before, where a PC running W2K would enter setup when booting, whici I resolved by booting in safe mode, and it then finished re-installing W2K. However, if I try that with this PC, it simply hangs at the opening of setup (just before the wizard should start).

Suggestions/ideas? I would like to avoid reformatting, if possible, but it is not too much of a problem since the OS is on a separate partition from all the programs, data files, etc.

Could the problem be a routing command I have to access the internet? Our proxy server is on a different network range, so I had to add a route to the routing table

 

What media are you using for the install?

If a CD, will your OS set to check for a bootable CD first? If it will, you can do the upgrade from there and it will probably work.

I also think I'd try chkdsk /r from a command prompt and specifying the system drive before attempting the upgrade again.

 

Hi Newt,
What I did was copy the \i386 folder (including subfolders) to my hard drive, and ran the update from there. However, I have managed to fix the problem by botting to safe mode with netowrking, so I suspect the problem was somehow related to the NIC driver. Thanx for the response tho, and sorry for the delay - yesterday was a holiday here to celebrate the end of Ramadan. It's great working in an officially Muslim developing country - you get all the Muslim national holidays, plus all the Christian ones as well!