Darik's Boot And Nuke CD Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 7:36 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by DNA (552 messages posted) Make a bootable CD with Darik's Boot And Nuke on it. Download the .iso and burn it to disc with Nero (or even a freeware CD burning program such as CDBurnerXP). When the disc is burned, insert into the CD drive. Check to see that the disc is read in Explorer. Shut down the laptop. Restart it, quickly press the "F12" key when first booting (specific instruction for a Dell Latitude) and you will get the option to boot from the CD drive. This will load Boot And Nuke from the CD-R. If your laptop doesn't have a CD drive, to format the drive you'd have to remove the drive and temporarily install it in a desktop computer, or plug it into another computer with a USB 2.0-to-IDE adapter. ---------------------------------------------------------- Athlon 1.1 - 768 MB RAM = 98SE & XP Home Athlon 3000+ 64 - 1024 MB RAM = 98SE (@768 MB RAM) & XP Pro IBM ThinkPad PIII 900 - 384 MB RAM = 98SE & XP Pro SP2 Windows 2000 Server in the basement Written in response to: Formatting a Win2K Dell laptop (Jeff: Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 4:38 am) Responses to this message: re: Darik's Boot And Nuke CD (Jeff: Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 8:16 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Formatting a Win2K Dell laptop (Jeff: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 4:38 am) Darik's Boot And Nuke CD (DNA: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 7:36 am) re: Darik's Boot And Nuke CD (Jeff: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 8:16 am) Booting from CD bypasses the hard drive's O.S. (DNA: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 9:29 am) Followup: How will you install 98? (DNA: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 12:26 pm) One argument for Win2K (DNA: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 12:39 pm) re: Formatting a Win2K Dell laptop (DEX: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 1:23 pm) The Dell has no floppy, but... (DNA: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 6:34 pm) re: The Dell has no floppy, but... (DEX: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 8:14 pm) 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