[muglo] Re: OT-re-installing Windows 2000 on Dell P3
- From: Eric D <hideme666@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:58:39 -0500
Are you trying to save the contents of the Windows XP install?
I presume that's not the case in which case I'd just "format and re-install=
". Fire up the Windows 2000 CD and tell it to format the HD completely befo=
re it installs itself. Then, connect the PC to the internet and allow it to=
auto-update by visiting the Microsoft software update site (I think MS sti=
ll provides downloads of updates for Windows 2000).
PS To boot the PC with the WIndows 2000 CD, insert it into the drive and re=
start the computer. If it boots from CD, that's great and you're off to the=
races.
If not, then you may have to enter "bios" and tell the bios to boot using t=
his sequence of events -- CD-HD-floppy (or CD-floppy-HD). You may also have=
the option to choose what device to use at bootup (usually a text list and=
you have 5 or 8 seconds to choose your poison or it automagically goes int=
o the normal boot sequence into WIndows).
To get into bios, press F1, F2 or Delete (depends on the machine).
Eric.
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> To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> From: theresaroth@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [muglo] OT-re-installing Windows 2000 on Dell P3
> Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 07:21:12 -0500
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> Can someone help me with another problem I'm having related to the P3=20
> my kids have?
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> I need to re-install Windows 2000 on my son's P3. His Windows 2000=20
> computer crashed last spring and his dad (lives elsewhere) installed=20
> Windows XP on it but it never worked. We have two problems with that. A=20
> .dll file is missing and we cannot create an internet connection=20
> (dial-up networking) as the version of XP he installed is a networked=20
> version and will only allow internet access through a server. Of=20
> course, no such server exists in my home.
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> I went back to Superior Computers (they wanted $80 to re-install it for=20
> me but I can't afford it) where I had bought the refurbished P3's and=20
> they gave me a disc for Windows 2000 (a sticker on the side of the P3=20
> has the code). I need some help getting Windows XP off the P3 and=20
> Windows 2000 onto it. Can anyone help me?
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