Best way is to copy off the files you want, then format the drive and install WIndows 2000 from scratch. It always works far better that way than to try to do an Upgrade from one OS to another.
Windows NT came first. NT 4.0 came to manufacturing in 1996, and Win 2000 was released to retail in February of 2000. [Windows 2000 is also known as Windows NT 5.0.]
admin and guest accounts
Windows NT is what Windows 2000 is upgraded from.
As normal Windows. 2000, XP, Vista, and 7 are all technically Windows NT
Incremental: Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP Differential: Windows 98/NT/2000/XP
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Microsoft 2000. XP came out following that.
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Windows 98 uses an older technology based on DOS, Windows 2000 is based on the NT Kernel. Sometimes Windows NT OS's don't work right with old dos files.With a clean install, you get a fresh start. With an upgrade, problems with applications or the OS may follow you into the new load.Install off of your Windows 2000 CD and then have Windows search for your Win 98 CD when it checks for valid upgrade path.
To function as a server a computer must be running as a WINDOWS based server i.e windows 2000, windows NT, windows 2k3, windows 2k8 editions of server installed on computer the server could be Linux based as well.
•Windows XP is heavily based on the Windows NT and 2000 core. •Default user login identical to XP Home Edition, but can be configured to do domain authentication like NT and 2000 •Administrative shares exist and are accessible in the same manner that they were in NT and 2000. •Windows XP continues the 32-bit programming model that was fully implemented in NT and 2000 -from Sabastian Gomes B'lore
Windows 2000 was the upgrade path of Windows NT 4, for both the Workstation and Server versions.