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Message: [QUOTE="John John (MVP), post: 12503769"] You can install from a flat folder and MS-DOS. If your goal is to install Windows 2000 copy the i386 folder from the Windows 2000 CD to the hard drive and then start the Setup with a Windows 98 Startup diskette, that entails of course that the drive will be formated FAT32. Make sure that you have smartdrv.exe on the W98 startup floppy. After you copy the i386 folder to the hard disk you can then start the Windows 2000 installation from MS-DOS by executing WINNT from the i386 folder on the hard disk. See here for typical instructions: [URL]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315349[/URL] The instructions are for XP but it's the same thing for Windows 2000. You can convert the file system to NTFS after the installation but make sure that the partition is aligned to a 4K boundary or else you will end up with 512 byte clusters. [URL]http://aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.php[/URL] John [/QUOTE]