Installing Win2000 on new HD?

[DPS]

I'm having trouble with the install of Win2000 on a new
HD. I have the CD, but not the boot disks. It doesn't
seem to boot off the CD, and it gives the message at the
end of the startup "missing operating system." Then it
just sits there. Any suggestions?

 

[Scott Harding - MS MVP]

If your system can't support booting to the Win2000 CD-ROM, you can use a
utility on the CD to create boot floppies on a PC running Windows 95, 98, or
NT. Here's how you do that.

1. Fully format four floppy disks, preferably new ones.
2. Go to the \BOOTDISK folder on the CD-ROM. You'll find two .EXE
files there: MAKEBOOT and MAKEBT32.
3. On a Win98/95 PC, run MAKEBOOT; on an NT machine, run MAKEBT32.
Follow the onscreen prompts to build the four floppies you need to boot the
Win2000 installer. Be sure to label your disks appropriately. When you're
done, the first boot disk will be finished and sitting in your floppy drive;
all you need do is leave in place and restart the computer