General Discussion - help quick please

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help quick please

cjwerlinger

2003-08-22, 6:31 pm

here is the situation. i have win2k pro instlaled now. I am trying to wipe hard drive and reinstall everything. Have my CD but do not have floppy disk si i cant make a boot disk. Try to restart in safe mode with dos prompt but gets to a file and locks up. Need to get reinstalled tonight ASAP please help

cjwerlinger

2003-08-22, 6:35 pm

come on people, give me some help. % people have viewed now and i havent even gottena suggestion yet....

jaydj3

2003-08-22, 6:44 pm

You need to go into your BIOS, and make your CD-ROM drive the first drive that is being booted. Then look for the format command by typing "dir format /s" at your CD-ROM's drive letter.

Anybody that finds something wrong with this, feel free to correct with a response.

BTomko

2003-08-22, 7:02 pm

Do you have access to another computer with a floppy?

azimuth40

2003-08-22, 7:10 pm

win2k is not bootable. You can do any of the following.

There is a folder on the cd called bootdisks It will make four bootdisks on any system. The progam is a dos program that makes them. The problem with this technique is that you must have a real CDROM drive, a burner or DVD will not work. The first reboot in the install does not understand other ID's and you will get an error in cdrom.sys.

The second technique is to copy the folder WINNT to your hard disk and then run the program winnt.exe from that folder on disk.

Good luck.

p.s. this is from memory so give me a break is the folder names are off a little. I'm not at a place with access to a w2k cd

Tarzanboy

2003-08-22, 9:15 pm

Create a 98 or DOS boot disk, use the command line to format it and install it.

Cheers,
TB

anthonie

2003-08-22, 9:40 pm

win2k is not bootable!?

azimuth40

2003-08-22, 10:41 pm

quote:
Originally posted by anthonie
win2k is not bootable!?

Win2k was produced in 1999. Most systems in use in the corporate world did not even have the capability in their BIOS yet. Win2k was for the corporate world. Burners were still very expensive, and DVD's were brand new. If you were the team leader on a tight schedule what whould you have done.

There has never been a 2k second edition although some slip streams exist and there are lots of instructions on how to make your own 2K bootable CD. Win98SE came out after win2k which introduced the bootable CD in mass followed by ME and XP.

p.s. I should point out that I am talking about the original 2k cd. The first CD's with service packs became bootable. This is much like the debate was Win98 bootable, as soon as you say no someone says "I have one". Microsoft slipstreams lots of software features. Most people did upgrades from NT4 or 98 first edition so it was not an issue.

anthonie

2003-08-23, 1:07 am

Oh thanks for the clarification. I thought what you said was once I installed win2k, my system will become unbootable.

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