I'm upgrading Window 98 to Windows 2000 Professional, why does it keep going through setup nonstop?

Answer 1

Because you're upgrading 98 to 2000. They are two VERY DIFFERENT architectures. Yes, Microsoft says you can upgrade - but after many attempts, I'll tell you that success rates are roughly 50% - that is 50% complete and run without issue. the other 50% may not install at all or if they do, they may have sporadic problems and often unusual, difficult to resolve problems.

You want 2000, backup your data, format C: and reinstall FRESH.

Answer 2

You need to be a bit more descriptive of your problem. The other answer is totally contrary to my experience. I have done that upgrade maybe 30 times or more and never had a failure. The key to it being successful as any upgrade is to disable or stop as many processes as possible that are started by 98 at boot. After 98 boots, for the task list and kill everything but explorer, and systray. If you are presented with an option to upgrade or full install, you've got an easy out, take the full install.option. You will be offered an option to change your file system to NTFS. I reccomend you do, but there's no going back to 98 if you do. If that doesn't do it, your problem could be insufficient memory or disk space.
I'm tell you the following only as a last resort, and if your comfortable doing it. To install from the DOS prompt, you need a boot disk (floppy), WIN98 will make you one, go to the \windows\command directory. There is a batch file there that does it for you, I believe it's called "BOOTDISK.BAT" . You also may need to change the order of boot devices so the floppy is accessed before the harddrive. If so, it's easy to change in setup which, hopefully you have a BIOS that offers setup during startup, usually at the bottom of the screen as the computer starts. Once you've got it in DOS mode with CD support, go to the i386 directory on the win2k cd and run setup.exe from the DOS prompt. Ask again if you need more help or E me. Good luck.