ilkevinli 0 Posted July 22, 2000 Can some tell me how I can install Windows 2000 from a freshly formated hard drive. I tried but it says cannot intsall from DOS. Thank you. Share this post Link to post
INFERNO2000 0 Posted July 22, 2000 The best way is to boot off CD... it Does work... however, if need be..you can use a Win98 boot disk, to get the CDdrive working, enter setup from the cd(x:\i386\winnt, where x is your cd drive), then format the drive from within the setup to remove the Win9x portion*(not doing this will result in failure if you convert to NTFS)* At least, that's what I've done in the past. Share this post Link to post
Svision 0 Posted July 22, 2000 I've installed it from empty HD many times. i have a bootable CD and just enable "boot from CD" in bios and power up. the setup will go from there just fine. Share this post Link to post
ilkevinli 0 Posted July 22, 2000 Thanx Guys for responding. When I try to boot from the CD I get the message "Disk boot error. Put a boot disk in and press enter." When I use the win98 boot disk and go to the cd and press setup, I get the message "Cannot run in DOS mode" I installed it over Win98 fine but I want to do a clean install. Any other suggestions ? Is there I boot disk of some kind I can use ? Thanx. Share this post Link to post
DosFreak 2 Posted July 22, 2000 In dos you need to go to the I386 directory and run WINNT. This is Windows NT it is NOT Windows 9x. So you do not run Setup. Share this post Link to post
Guest Posted July 24, 2000 Kinda funny you say that... only pirated versions of Win2k don't boot from cd... unless you have the ISO. ------------------ ********************************************** ---Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.--- ********************************************** Pentium II 450@504 4.5X112 128MB PC100 SDRAM Diamond Viper V770 Ultra Sound Blaster Live! Value Seagate 13.6 Gig 7200RPM ATA/66 Western Digital 13.4 Gig 7200RPM ATA/66 Quantum 8.3 Gig 36X Acer CD Rom Viewsonic PS790 19" Sweet as Heck Monitor 3Com NIC Lexmark 5700 Printer ********************************************** Share this post Link to post
jabbathewocket 0 Posted July 24, 2000 actually retail cd's dont boot from cd on systems that dont support boot from cd either.. always quick to accuse people of pirating i thought this forum was over that.... laters Share this post Link to post
jabbathewocket 0 Posted July 24, 2000 actually retail cd's dont boot from cd on systems that dont support boot from cd either.. always quick to accuse people of pirating i thought this forum was over that.... laters Share this post Link to post
Bing 0 Posted July 25, 2000 Nice ignorant coment about not being able to boot from the CD. Mine does not work and my copy of win2k is a retail boxed version. I have an Abit Ka7, AHA 2940UW host adapter with a HDD and the CD-ROM on it. It is a known issue with my hardware combo.(the ry bios was suposed to fix this issue, but did not for me). Athlon 850 MHz Abit Ka7 (ry bios) 256MB PC100 RAM Geforce DDR (creative) 5.30 Ref drivers Plextor 12/20 SCSI CD-ROM IBM u2w SCSI HDD Adaptec 2940UW (2) 8MB Voodoo2 SB Live! ISA Sportster 56k Share this post Link to post
Maniac_NL 0 Posted July 25, 2000 bing when you want to boot from a scsi cd-rom, you have to make sure you set the bios to boot from scsi after that you have to go into the bios of your scsi cart and set there support cd-rom boot that's all, it works fine on my 29160 and my former 2930 u2 good luck Share this post Link to post
Bing 0 Posted July 26, 2000 Maniac: I am aware of the proper way to boot off a SCSI CD-ROM. Please re-read my post. My point was that there are other reasons for the CD boot to not work. Share this post Link to post
