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I think clean installation failed, there is/was another installation route with upgrade. I agree that the low-level explanation is lacking, but in fairness dos

I think clean installation failed, there is/was another installation route with upgrade. I agree that the low-level explanation is lacking, but in fairness dosbox-x doesn't sound like it offers that (out of the box). I'm guessing what happened, the boot sector etc. were installed by 98, win2k had some way of converting from FAT32 to NTFS, and the winxp installer just sets some flags and dumps install files on disk somewhere. Getting all that from "it's the NT conversion" is a stretch, but.

felsqualle 2y ago
That's my current theory as well. IMHO that's the reason why an upgrade from 98 to XP failed while it ran successfully by using Windows 2000 as the base installation. Note that I was totally skipping the text-based installation stage when upgrading from Windows 2000 while I got it when starting the installation from Windows 98 - that's where the "NT conversion, stupid!"-theory came from.