Just to add to Fed-up's reply - you may have either bad hardware (2k is much more 
sensitive to this on install than 98 - if your 98 installation often froze, rebooted, 
give registry errors etc, this would also point to bad hardware) or hardware not 
compatible with 2k. An install of 2k should take 30-45 minutes on a reasonable machine.

Assuming you can (or have) - I would now back up your important data and do a clean 
install (boot from 2k install CD & use its partitioning tools to remove existing 
partition and create a new one for 2k. If its an upgrade CD, you'll need you 98 install 
CD too - just to prove eligibility for upgrade). If this install also hangs, its 
a process of elimination to find which hardware is causing the problem (RAM is good 
start point - eg, if > 1 stick, run with each on its own - if big enough - at least 
64MB, preferably 128. Or use a known good stick from elsewhere).







On Tuesday, January 4, 2005 at 10:40 am, Lawrence Tomei wrote:

>HELP! I tried to upgrade my Dell P3 last night from Windows 98. THe install proceeded 

>fine until the very end (some 2.5 hours later). During the final actions, when the 

>machine was working on registering programs, it hangs...I let it run literally all 

>night and it was still at the same spot when I woke up in the morning. A re-boot 

>simply puts me at the same place. 

>

>How do I get past this barrier?
 

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