Reinstalling Win2K

tod071 · Post by **tod071** » Wed Jan 03, 2001 2:54 pm

Having problems with Win2K and want to re-format HD and re-install W2K. How do I boot to DOS prompt, in order to format c:? Any other ways around the DOS prompt to format c:?

glc1 · Post by **glc1** » Wed Jan 03, 2001 2:56 pm

You need to use a boot disk. You can use a Win95 or Win98 boot disk, or a custom boot disk.

Zporttech · Post by **Zporttech** » Wed Jan 03, 2001 4:30 pm

You will be better off to use a W2K boot disk set. You can make them from your CD. Go to the "bootdisk" folder.

It should take four floppies.

Good Luck

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glc1 · Post by **glc1** » Wed Jan 03, 2001 5:19 pm

It would be faster to use a Win95/98 boot disk, if you already have one, obviously. Just use it to boot to DOS. Then type:

format c: /q

then cd to your CD-Rom and type:
cd i386
setup

If you don't have one, you can use a Win95/98 machine to create one.

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Thu Jan 04, 2001 2:41 am

Or you can go into the bios and change it to boot from the cd-rom, I think once it starts to load Win2k it will prompt you to what file system you want to format the disk with.

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