need to make a win 2000 pro boot disk

[Guest]

can someone help me? i have tried downloading files to make a boot cd, as i
lost my win 2000 pro orig disk and my pc crashed when i was doing a norton
live update.
desperate, and not good at making discs, but have another laptop to use for
this. please reply as, and can you walk me through it? i just need the disk
to restart the pc. there is a corrupt file. thanks! cindy

 

[Walterius]

Copy one. Remember, W2K does *not* require activation. <evil grin>

Btw, stay away from Norton. It's evil. <sadistic smile>

Walterius

 

[Dave Patrick]

For the floppy to successfully boot Windows NT/2000 the disk must contain
the "NT" boot sector. Format a diskette (on an NT machine, not a DOS/Win9x,
so the NT boot sector gets written to the floppy), then copy ntldr,
ntdetect.com, and boot.ini to it; and possibly ntbootdd.sys. Edit the
boot.ini to give it a correct ARC path for the machine you wish to boot.


Else if you meant a dos disk, you can boot a Win98 startup disk or navigate
to;
\VALUEADD\3RDPARTY\CA_ANTIV\
on your Windows 2000 install CD-Rom and execute makedisk.bat or
www.bootdisk.com


Else if you wanted setup disks, the set of four install disks can be created
from your Win2k 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.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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:
| can someone help me? i have tried downloading files to make a boot cd, as
i
| lost my win 2000 pro orig disk and my pc crashed when i was doing a norton
| live update.
| desperate, and not good at making discs, but have another laptop to use
for
| this. please reply as, and can you walk me through it? i just need the
disk
| to restart the pc. there is a corrupt file. thanks! cindy