re: Win2K clean install Monday, February 17, 2003 at 6:01 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Bob (177 messages posted) Format hard drive with WIN98 floppy disk etc. Make partition active on the hard drive, this will give you a bootable hard drive (Format C: /S) Copy the files off of the WIN98 boot floppy to the hard drive in the root directory so that the hard drive will load the same options as the floppy gave you. Switch the floppy for the CD-ROM. When the CD-ROM is now active put the W2K disk in and you can either run the install from the CD-ROM or copy the CD-ROM to some directory you created on the hard drive. Find winnt.exe file and run it from CD-ROM or hard drive. (Not winnt32.exe) Hope this helps On Sunday, February 16, 2003 at 11:22 pm, FeNix7 wrote: >I'm installing Win2K from WinNT, on a laptop, and I've done the proper FDISK'ing >and formatting, but I didn't foresee this happening. The laptop can only use a floppy >drive or a CD drive, not both, so I have to switch them out. When I go through the >process of putting in the 4 boot discs individually, I come to the part where I need >to put in the Win2K CD, but I can't switch out the floppy drive for the CD drive >because the laptop won't detect the CD drive unless it has rebooted. Any idea on >what to do? Written in response to: Win2K clean install (FeNix7: Sunday, February 16, 2003 at 11:22 pm) Responses to this message: re: Win2K clean install (Manny: Monday, February 17, 2003 at 10:53 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Win2K clean install (FeNix7: Sun, Feb 16, 2003, 11:22 pm) re: Win2K clean install (Bob: Mon, Feb 17, 2003, 6:01 am) re: Win2K clean install (Manny: Mon, Feb 17, 2003, 10:53 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum