Re-installing Win 2000

[Wayne Evans]

I am running Windows 2000 Professional on our other comp,
and I am having problems. I want to scrub the hard drive
and re-install the same OS. How do I do this? I had no
problem doing this with Win 98, but Windows 2000 is a
different animal.
Thanks for any help.

Wayne

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Simply boot from the Win2K or WinXP installation CD. You'll be
offered the opportunity to delete, create, and/or format the system
partition as part of the installation process. (You may need to
re-arrange the order of boot devices in the PC's BIOS to boot from the
CD.)


Bruce Chambers

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[dave]

So I want to do the same thing Wayne does. I set the Bios
boot options to CD-ROM as Option 1. I put the Win 2K CD
in the CD-ROM and start it up. It then tells me it can't
boot from CD - Code 4. What gives?

dave

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Either you have a defective installation CD, or it's not a
legitimate Win2K installation CD, all of which are bootable.


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[Wayne Evans]

Thank you very much.

Wayne

-----Original Message-----
Greetings --

Simply boot from the Win2K or WinXP installation CD. You'll be
offered the opportunity to delete, create, and/or format the system
partition as part of the installation process. (You may need to
re-arrange the order of boot devices in the PC's BIOS to boot from the
CD.)


Bruce Chambers

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Help us help you:



You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. -- RAH





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[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

You're welcome.

Bruce Chambers

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[Albertv]

If you realy want to "scrub" the HD, use a program like
GWSCAN and write zeros to the whole drive or 1/3 of it.
It's like installing on a new drive.

Albert