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You say it happens with any wifi network? By that you mean any network that is open/public - besides any that are more private but will allow you access (but obviously requiring the correct passcode...

Any chance you can run an ethernet cable (ideally two of them as minimum) between house the "shed"?

This would be cable designed for external use and ideally in a conduit (plastic is fine).

If...

Realise that and understand fully. Another excellent forum (sadly now closed) where I was a moderator for some time also had the same policy. If the OP (or anyone for that matter) searches on line...

This is an olde thread I know.. but was it resolved? There are "legal" utilities out there nowadays which will allow what the poster wanted...

if needs-be (and allowed as per forum rules) I could...

Thank y'all...

Where's I bin...

Here 'n there and elsewhere. Moved to Mac systems a while back, but realised one ought to be aware of/upto date re' M$-land OS too. I was at one time very up on...

Thank you for the reset sent to my hotmail account. I have used that successfully and then of course changed it to another more complex one.

I've also responded via my hotmail account as backup to...

U can upgrade but remember that W2K is more a Pro OS; it's not designed for games use...
Perhaps consider a dual-boot?

W2K is more demanding on RAM quality; NT almost the same; '98 less so...
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In an ideal world you would have a smallish C: active Primary partition on HD-1 (Master), an Extended partition (with at least twological-drives), and on HD-2 and a decent size Primary on HD-2...

Or perhaps use a '98 boot-disk and run Fdisk to delete partitions; then reconfigure HD as you wish.

Never having used a recovery CD I'm not 'au fait' with their limitations; but I can't think why...

visit M$ Knowlege Base and do a search using the Operating System MSDOS as the Product; and the search string debug

You will get several useful M$ KB returns on it; including losing NTFS via...

Just to clarify your situation... you are using a server based LAN...? Your initial post doesn't actually specify it...

If 'somehow' you're running a peer-to-peer then there's your problem... P2P...

Wouldn't the 'guest' account work here, as it would in NT4??? You may have to enable it in W2K; in NT4 I think it's enabled 'by default'???

The standard requirement/condition for NT/'98 (NT/'95) is to have the C: system partition (active primary) as FAT16; this is where all M$ OS's install their boot/startup files...

If, by chance you...

http://www.sysinternals.com

NT utilities section has what you need... (NTFSDOS V3.0)

What is the configuration of your HD - partitions/sizes etc. at present?

And what is actually happening when you attempt to install NTWS???

A little more info (from you) and probably an answer...

Have read of the Summer edition of Win2000mag.

Find it in the back issues section via:

http://www.win2000mag.com

There are several extremely useful articles within relating to W2K and...

Some useful sites:

http://www.wown.com aka http://www.helmig.com (and look for 'Sharing one modem' - which includes the ICS features...)

http://www.practicallynetworked.com (Tim Higgin's...

fwiw...

Q195211 - Windows NT Setup Detects Partitions as Unformatted or Damaged

- from M$ KB... I know it refers to NT4, but possibly it has a bearing here???...

Other thought, are you...

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q136/3/37.asp

may be a starting point?

Sorry I can't offer more ideas... I think the last time I had this issue I did a re-install/overwrite...

If your Dell is Dell configured with W2K, perhaps Dell support should be approached as well? It's part of what you pay your $$$'s for...

Sorry I can't offer a clear solution, but I'm inclined...

You want to remove W2K and re-install '98?
You have two partitions on your HD; how is your HD configured?
What file format is W2K?
Does your PC allow a CDROM boot?

Are you sure you're using a...

http://www.wown.com aka http://www.helmig.com

and look through the '95/'98 sections for DirectCableConnection etc...

Also:
http://kime.net/directcc/directcc95.htm

...

... and you can't mix/install the two types in a given PC installation...

You can't...

Core requirement for NT/'9x is FAT16 C: system (active primary) partition; this is where all M$ OS's install their boot/start-up files and it has to be FAT16... Your query reads as...

http://www.listmaker.net/win98/index.html

November 9th '98 entry; and the rest of the info is worth the browse...