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Aside from an almost total lack of technical support, WIN2K is not bad. I
had a problem with an old spare Hitachi DK213A-13 1.3 G hard drive and my
Syquest SPARQ 1 GB drive had to be uninstalled before I could install WIN2K
RC2. The Hitachi drive was visible from WIN2K as a Hitachi drive with 0
bytes capacity and 0 bytes free. I was able to access it from safe mode
command prompt, but not from WIN2K gui. In command prompt the whole drive
seemed accessible with no problems. I tried various ways of replacing the
partition on the drive and reformatting it from the WIN2K gui with no luck
until yesterday when I got it formatted from properties tools. After that,
when I rebooted my system it complained about an error on the drive and
took forever to come up. Also, I couldn't do a scandisk or a defrag on my
remaining logical volumes on my main 8 GB Quantum EIDE drive.
I finally physically removed the drive. This somehow totally screwed up my
registry so that I couldn't copy files/directories around anymore from NT
explorer and my email and TS2Ki wouldn't load anymore. I had to re-install
WIN2Ki RC2, and re-install my email program (Eudora 4.52). TS2Ki now comes
up ok. I'm able to defrag my remaining drives.
I've noticed a slight speed improvement when things are working
well. Since I've done the re-install, things seem to be running faster,
but not by a whole lot.
At 09:38 AM 11/3/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I was wondering if anyone installed the latest beta of Win 2000
>Professional.
>
>a) Is it stable?
>
>b) does TS 4 and Prosuite 2000 work at all with the new operating system and
>if so is it more or less stable and is it faster or slower?
>
>c) any problems installing over win98?
>
>Thanks
>Danny
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