Installing Windows2000 from formated hard drive ?
Can some tell me how I can install Windows 2000 from a freshly formated hard drive. I tried but it says cannot intsall from DOS. Thank you. .
Can some tell me how I can install Windows 2000 from a freshly formated hard drive. I tried but it says cannot intsall from DOS. Thank you.
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The best way is to boot off CD...
it Does work...
however, if need be..you can use a Win98 boot disk, to get the CDdrive working, enter setup from the cd(x:\i386\winnt, where x is your cd drive), then format the drive from within the setup to remove the Win9x portion*(not doing this will result in failure if you convert to NTFS)*
At least, that's what I've done in the past.
it Does work...
however, if need be..you can use a Win98 boot disk, to get the CDdrive working, enter setup from the cd(x:\i386\winnt, where x is your cd drive), then format the drive from within the setup to remove the Win9x portion*(not doing this will result in failure if you convert to NTFS)*
At least, that's what I've done in the past.
Thanx Guys for responding. When I try to boot from the CD I get the message "Disk boot error. Put a boot disk in and press enter." When I use the win98 boot disk and go to the cd and press setup, I get the message "Cannot run in DOS mode" I installed it over Win98 fine but I want to do a clean install. Any other suggestions ? Is there I boot disk of some kind I can use ? Thanx.
Kinda funny you say that... only pirated versions of Win2k don't boot from cd... unless you have the ISO.
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Pentium II 450@504 4.5X112
128MB PC100 SDRAM
Diamond Viper V770 Ultra
Sound Blaster Live! Value
Seagate 13.6 Gig 7200RPM ATA/66
Western Digital 13.4 Gig 7200RPM ATA/66
Quantum 8.3 Gig
36X Acer CD Rom
Viewsonic PS790 19" Sweet as Heck Monitor
3Com NIC
Lexmark 5700 Printer
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actually retail cd's dont boot from cd on systems that dont support boot from cd either.. always quick to accuse people of pirating i thought this forum was over that....
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actually retail cd's dont boot from cd on systems that dont support boot from cd either.. always quick to accuse people of pirating i thought this forum was over that....
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Nice ignorant coment about not being able to boot from the CD.
Mine does not work and my copy of win2k is a retail boxed version. I have an Abit Ka7, AHA 2940UW host adapter with a HDD and the CD-ROM on it. It is a known issue with my hardware combo.(the ry bios was suposed to fix this issue, but did not for me).
Athlon 850 MHz
Abit Ka7 (ry bios)
256MB PC100 RAM
Geforce DDR (creative) 5.30 Ref drivers
Plextor 12/20 SCSI CD-ROM
IBM u2w SCSI HDD
Adaptec 2940UW
(2) 8MB Voodoo2
SB Live!
ISA Sportster 56k
Mine does not work and my copy of win2k is a retail boxed version. I have an Abit Ka7, AHA 2940UW host adapter with a HDD and the CD-ROM on it. It is a known issue with my hardware combo.(the ry bios was suposed to fix this issue, but did not for me).
Athlon 850 MHz
Abit Ka7 (ry bios)
256MB PC100 RAM
Geforce DDR (creative) 5.30 Ref drivers
Plextor 12/20 SCSI CD-ROM
IBM u2w SCSI HDD
Adaptec 2940UW
(2) 8MB Voodoo2
SB Live!
ISA Sportster 56k
