a bit of a puzzler....

i have an old computer, pentium 2, 128mb ram, 4gb hard drive.

if i put the hard drive in a more powerful computer then i can install and
run w2k on it.

if i put the hard drive back into my old pc then the computer always reboots
just at the end of the windows loading screen. this always happens at
exactly the same point.

i can however install and run windows me on my old computer.

w2k was installed as ntfs. windows me was installed as FAT.

is the ntfs/fat format of the hard drive the problem, a lack of ram or
another issue?

I noticed that too. I upgraded from Win 95 to Win2000 professional
academic version on a P1 200MMX with 96 megs. RAM. I installed the
same hard drive in a P1 133MHz unit with 65 megs. RAM, I got the same
result as you. I expected it to find motherboard differences and
correct them, but it didn't. I wound up doing a format and reload.
As I recall, the Win2000 required as minimum: P133, 65 megs. RAM and a
2 gig HD. (WinME required 150MHz.) KK
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"irrelevantelephant" <aste72atdsl.pipex.com> wrote in message news:<4092a84d$0$10680$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.co m>...
> a bit of a puzzler....
>
> i have an old computer, pentium 2, 128mb ram, 4gb hard drive.
>
> if i put the hard drive in a more powerful computer then i can install and
> run w2k on it.
>
> if i put the hard drive back into my old pc then the computer always reboots
> just at the end of the windows loading screen. this always happens at
> exactly the same point.
>
> i can however install and run windows me on my old computer.
>
> w2k was installed as ntfs. windows me was installed as FAT.
>
> is the ntfs/fat format of the hard drive the problem, a lack of ram or
> another issue?

I noticed that too. I upgraded from Win 95 to Win2000 professional
academic version on a P1 200MMX with 96 megs. RAM. I installed the
same hard drive in a P1 133MHz unit with 65 megs. RAM, I got the same
result as you. I expected it to find motherboard differences and
correct them, but it didn't. I wound up doing a format and reload.
As I recall, the Win2000 required as minimum: P133, 65 megs. RAM and a
2 gig HD. (WinME required 150MHz.) KK
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"irrelevantelephant" <aste72atdsl.pipex.com> wrote in message news:<4092a84d$0$10680$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.co m>...
> a bit of a puzzler....
>
> i have an old computer, pentium 2, 128mb ram, 4gb hard drive.
>
> if i put the hard drive in a more powerful computer then i can install and
> run w2k on it.
>
> if i put the hard drive back into my old pc then the computer always reboots
> just at the end of the windows loading screen. this always happens at
> exactly the same point.
>
> i can however install and run windows me on my old computer.
>
> w2k was installed as ntfs. windows me was installed as FAT.
>
> is the ntfs/fat format of the hard drive the problem, a lack of ram or
> another issue?