I want to wipe a hard drive that has two partitions and start over
(reinstall W2K back on the drive with no partitions). Not being a
techie, how do I go about doing this (restoring the drive to not have
two partitions)?

"TMitchell" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I want to wipe a hard drive that has two partitions and start over
> (reinstall W2K back on the drive with no partitions). Not being a
> techie, how do I go about doing this (restoring the drive to not have
> two partitions)?

1. Set your BIOS so that the CD drive is the primary boot device.
2. Boot the machine with your Win2000 CD.
3. Allow all existing partitions to be deleted.
4. Proceed with the installation.

To do a clean install, either boot the Windows 2000 install CD-Rom or setup
disks. The set of four install disks can be created from your Windows 2000
CD-Rom; change to the \bootdisk directory on the CD-Rom and execute
makeboot.exe (from dos) or makebt32.exe (from 32 bit) and follow the
prompts.

Setup inspects your computer's hardware configuration and then begins to
install the Setup and driver files. When the Windows 2000 Professional
screen appears, press ENTER to set up Windows 2000 Professional.

Read the license agreement, and then press the F8 key to accept the terms of
the license agreement and continue the installation.

When the Windows 2000 Professional Setup screen appears, all the existing
partitions and the unpartitioned spaces are listed for each physical hard
disk. Use the ARROW keys to select the partitions Press D to delete an
existing partition, If you press D to delete an existing partition, you must
then press L (or press ENTER, and then press L if it is the System
partition) to confirm that you want to delete the partition. Repeat this
step for each of the existing partitions When all the partitions are deleted
press F3 to exit setup, (to avoid unexpected drive letter assignments with
your new install) then restart the pc then when you get to this point in
setup again select the unpartitioned space, and then press C to create a new
partition and specify the size (if required). Windows will by default use
all available space.

Be sure to apply SP4 and these two below to your new install before
connecting to any network. Internet included. (sasser, msblast)
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo.../W2KSP4_EN.EXE
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../MS03-043.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../MS03-049.mspx

Then

Rollup 1 for Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

"TMitchell" wrote:
|I want to wipe a hard drive that has two partitions and start over
| (reinstall W2K back on the drive with no partitions). Not being a
| techie, how do I go about doing this (restoring the drive to not have
| two partitions)?