c; you can boot from the win2k disk and install, if it states cannot find qualifying product, pop yr NT disk in the cd, point to it, then continue installation. Win2k is hardware picky, you should ensure yr hardware supports it, particularly graphics card....

copy Bootsect.dos - it's not needed to load win2k but it might make things easier later. The boot sector on c: drive is also important. It contains the code to load your boot menu, rather than just starting win 98. If you format a floppy disk in win2k,...

model PCG-c1VN laptop - repartitioned and reformatted with W98 boot disk then attempted to boot into and install w2k with w2k boot disks. The floppy drive works fine nad loads the 4 w2k boot disks - howver at the very end it say it cannot complete...

Drive letter changes under dual boot win2k/xp install. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers () I have a dual HDD dual boot PC, one disk running win2k, on the other I just installed XP home (I had another install of win2k there previously...

win2k installation cd I have a dual-boot, win2000 or FreeBSD. Isn't the Repair option going to rewrite the boot record, clobbering this feature and forcing me to install FreeBSD all over again? Isn't there some way to install a SCSI driver in win2000,...

when needed. any ideas? Thanks, Brook Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.setup () Boot from win2k installation disk and follow prompts I might add it might be advisable to format/delete partitions using the win2k disk prior to install...

install. I also copied the boot.ini file to the diskette. With > that on A: it does indeed boot Win2k fine (but not unexpectedly does not >boot XP, giving the same error for it as it does for Win2k with the XP > files). I also tried the pair of files...

Clean Install--Win2k. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.setup () I am trying to install Win2k Pro. onto a friends computer, the hard drive is brand new. I think I know the problem, but not sure. Can you install Win2k using a Win98 boot disk??...

appropriate boot disk, format the hard drive, and install. There is no supported downgrade path or technique. Simply boot from the Win2K installation CD. You'll be offered the opportunity to delete, create, and/or format the system partition as...

completed the installation of Win2K. Thanks in advance LasithG Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.setup_deployment () I haven't used Windows 9x in years, but I think you can use "fdisk.exe /mbr" from a Windows 98 boot disk to replace the...