[Dual boot installation problems]

I tried to install Windows 2000 over the 98 on a friends computer as per the CD asked and now on startup it has 3 OS options to choose from and I chose ONE of the Windows 2000 and it just goes blank, black....

Did I do this wrong? I did want to do a clean install, wipe the drive clean and start fresh but I don't think this is what happened.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? I don't know what to do and my mind is failing me on which buttons to push, LOL!!

PLEASE HELP!!!

 

So, what happens when you choose the other windows 2000?

If that one results in a black screen as well, you might want to fdisk the thing, and start over.

Good luck,

Kathie

 

I would format the drive and start over. I advise that you split the drive into 2 partitions... say 3/4 for 2000 and 1/4 for 98. Install 98 first on the smaller partition then install 2000 on the larger partition. The 2000 install should take care of the dual boot for you automatically.

When installing dual boot for 2 versions of windows always install the earlier version first.

When installing dual boot with windows and linux install windows first then linux. Linux install will do the dual boot for you... at least with mandrake

Best bet on any dual install would be to have a different partition for each boot.

I was redoing my system one time and tried something. Made 4 partitions and installed, in order, win 98, win 2000, win XP and Linux. Went flawlessly with each having their own partition. Of course I didn't leave it that way, was just an experiment.

 

The corrected subject line seems to hint that you wish to Dual boot with Windows 98 and Windows 2000, but the way I read the post in itself it sounds as if you wish to upgrade from Win98 to Win2K.

If you do wish to upgrade, you may want to boot from the Win2K CD and from one of the first screens in the install procedure, choose to delete any existing partitions on the HDD, then you create a new partition (I'd recommend formatting it to NTFS in the next step). And install Win2K into that newly created partition.

Be aware that this will remove all information on the disk (documents, mail, personal information etc.), so you will end up with a completely fresh installation of Win2K - if the Win2K CD is not slipstreamed with SP4, be sure to have SP4 burnt on a CD and install this before connecting to the internet, and visit Windowsupdate first thing after connecting.

And be sure to have both the Win2K and Win98 CD on hand if your Win2K installation CD is an upgrade version as it will need to verify that you qualify for an upgrade (it does this by asking you to insert a qualifying product CD sometime during the installation).

If I've misunderstood and you do want to dual boot with the two OS's you should go with Jaylach's description.

 

I stand corrected...

I answered the wrong question...

Pretty good answer though...

I would also recommend booting from the Win 2000 CD for a clean install. You may have to change a setting in your bios to do it though. To boot from the CD the bios must know to look at the CD before the hard drive or it will boot from the hard drive and never see the CD Just look for the boot order. There are different ways that a bios displays this but in all cases you want the CD to be before the hard drive.

If you don't have the ability to change the boot order... bios dosen't list CD or such you can always make a startup floppy disk with CD support from add/remove programs in win 98.

If you boot from floppy and don't know how to get to the CD drive write back. What you will want to run is setup or it may be install in the root directory of the win 2000 CD

I suggest that you allow it to format NTFS when asked.