How do we install Win 2000 with no floppy drive?

[StargateFan]

I just did an upgrade to Windows 2000. I was able to easily install
because I made the 4 bootdisks. But new computers don't have floppy
drives. How do we install when that is the case, pls, anyone know? I
hope to get a new computer in a couple of months and both Win98SE and
Win2K seem to create boot disks for the CD-ROM to work, etc. and would
like to use Win2K in new system. If anyone can point me to a good
guide onine, would greatly appreciate it! D

 

[Dave Patrick]

Always best to boot the CD-Rom. 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 these to your new install before connecting to any network.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/6/A/E6A04295-D2A8-40D0-A0C5-241BFECD095E/W2KSP4_EN.EXE
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-043.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-049.mspx

Then

Rollup 1 for Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...CF-8850-4531-B52B-BF28B324C662&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

:
|I just did an upgrade to Windows 2000. I was able to easily install
| because I made the 4 bootdisks. But new computers don't have floppy
| drives. How do we install when that is the case, pls, anyone know? I
| hope to get a new computer in a couple of months and both Win98SE and
| Win2K seem to create boot disks for the CD-ROM to work, etc. and would
| like to use Win2K in new system. If anyone can point me to a good
| guide onine, would greatly appreciate it! D
|

 

[StargateFan]

Woops re "apply these to your new install before connecting to any
network" ... does that mean the internet, too? I'm going to dl those
files now, thanks.

p.s., my initial question _still_ stands: how do we install WIN2K
_without_ a floppy drive?? New computers come without these. My old
dinosaur is fine here at home as it's old enough to have one. I
naturally figured out how to make the boot disks when I installed
initially but what prompted the concern is how new computers just
don't have these anymore.

Curious situation as the new computer at work and my uncle's laptop,
for example, come without ability to read floppies. How do they do it
at the office when that's the case - or is it because they can install
via the network?? If that's the case, that's no good for us home
users without floppies. Pls advise. I'm upgrading my computer
hopefully soon and I hate XP. I have had to work with it on various
computers and fix it for friends and 2 family members. I don't care
for it at all. And I have this perfectly good Win2K. Yet I imagine
that it's not going to be any different from my Win98SE that I've had
all these years - it'll be required that I wipe/reinstall
periodically.

Thanks. D

 

[Dave Patrick]

:
| Woops re "apply these to your new install before connecting to any
| network" ... does that mean the internet, too? I'm going to dl those
| files now, thanks.
* Yes especially the internet, if you're not properly firewalled then you'll
be infected with blaster and or sasser within minutes.


| p.s., my initial question _still_ stands: how do we install WIN2K
| _without_ a floppy drive?? New computers come without these. My old
| dinosaur is fine here at home as it's old enough to have one. I
| naturally figured out how to make the boot disks when I installed
| initially but what prompted the concern is how new computers just
| don't have these anymore.
* My answer still stands Always best to boot the CD-Rom.



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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

 

[Jim in Arizona]

Your system should be able to boot from CD-ROM. Your Windows2000 CD
should be a bootable CD. If you put the CD into your CD-ROM drive and
find that you are not being asked to press a key to boot from CD, you
need to go into your system BIOS and make sure that it is set to boot
from CD before the hard drive (or any other device). It is usually in
advanced settings within your BIOS setup screen.

 

[StargateFan]

Your system should be able to boot from CD-ROM. Your Windows2000 CD
should be a bootable CD. If you put the CD into your CD-ROM drive and
find that you are not being asked to press a key to boot from CD, you
need to go into your system BIOS and make sure that it is set to boot
from CD before the hard drive (or any other device). It is usually in
advanced settings within your BIOS setup screen.

Sorry for delay in responding, I was out of the country for a few days
<g>.

I'll have to look into this as I was not asked for that option, or I
didn't recognize it when I saw it, whatever the case may be. I'll pay
more attention when next I have to do a wipe/reinstall.

Thanks. D

 

[executioners]

StargateFan means to start from the CD without the need of the diskettes and in windows 2000 it doesn't seem to have the message option (wondering why) that should write "press any key to start from the (damn) CD" when the start from the CD has been selected from the BIOS and the machine starts and reads all the drivers, that doesn't happen for example in windows XP, windows 7 or whatever windows

then the installation CD should somehow be altered to the AUTOEXEC.BAT to include a line such as MSCDEX /D: oemcd001 /L: D