Dilemma

[George W. Barrowcliff]

I have an install dilemma and need some guidance from a frontpage guru.

I orignally purchased the full edition of Win98 and installed it on my
Windows 98 second edition machine and used it for a while until the FP2000
came out.

I purchased the upgrade, installed it and have been using it on and off ever
since. Along the way I upgraded my operating system to Windows 2000 with no
problems.

A few weeks ago my drive began to have lots of errors, so I bought a new
drive and installed Windows 2000.

I have been slowly reinstalling applications and today I tried my FP
product.
The FP98 CD gets the initial install screen, but when I click on the install
nothing happens. I have since found out that FP98 won't run on Win2K and I
can't install my FP2K because it is an upgrade from FP98.

If I try the FP2000, after I enter the key, it searches the drive and
reports 'no qualifying product for upgrade found'.

How can I get around this without buying yet another version of FP? Is
there anything I could retreive from my last drive that would get me past
this obstacle?

TIA

 

[Steve Easton]

Start the 2000 install, select custom installation and *do not* install PWS.
Then when the install looks for the other version, put the 98 CD in the drive, click OK and point
the installer to the CD
The install will then resume and ask for the 2000 CD.


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Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
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[George W. Barrowcliff]

Thanks Steve, worked perfectly!

Start the 2000 install, select custom installation and *do not* install PWS.
Then when the install looks for the other version, put the 98 CD in the drive, click OK and point
the installer to the CD
The install will then resume and ask for the 2000 CD.


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Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
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[Steve Easton]

Glad to help.
Thanks for letting us know the results.
;-)

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Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
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