win 2000 formatting to a different drive

[kevin]

i'm running w2000. a friend who is running w2000 has
forgot his logon password. i've heard you need to re-
install the os. i can't get his box to boot from a cd
so i've connected his hardrive to mine. can i re-install
w2000 to his drive with out messing up my own os

 

[Honjo]

i'm running w2000. a friend who is running w2000 has
forgot his logon password. i've heard you need to re-
install the os. i can't get his box to boot from a cd

Did you look at BIOS setting? Probably it is not set to boot from
CDROM. Change the boot priority order to A,CDROM,HD.

If you still can not boot from CDROM then boot to W9x or WME start-up
FD, and then run winnt.exe.If you copy smartdrv.exe to the FD and run
smartdrv before running winnt.exe then install process will be speedier.

so i've connected his hardrive to mine. can i re-install
w2000 to his drive with out messing up my own os

This works only if your PC is identical as your friend's.


Kaz