When your boss decides Windows 2000 is causing more headaches than it is worth. Here
is some advice. Windows 2000 takes over your hard drive. Please ensure you have a
working win95/98 boot diskette somewhere so you can kill the Window 2000 boot loader.
Boot the system from the win95/98 boot diskette. Run the command "sys c:" without the
quotes...C: assumes the drive Win2000 was loaded on.
Good luck! I have been down this path before. Win2000 has been assigned to the stack
of software I don't use anymore.
Cyphfer
On Thu, 03 May 2001, "David Savkovic" wrote:
>
> You need to create the 4 startup diskettes located in the , I think,
> makeboot or makedisk directory on the cd. Boot from the floppies go through
> the, yawn, four slow diskettes then do a regular install of Windows 2000 of
> the cd.
>
> My PC can't see the cd either, even though Linux boots up so smooth and
> easy.
>
>
> >1. Get a new boss.
> >
> >Failing that,
> >
> >2. Make sure the BIOS is set to boot from floppy first;
> >3. Boot with a dos diskette;
> >4. a:\>fdisk /mbr
> >
> >Dave
> >
> >On Thursday 03 May 2001 17:24, thus spake Victor Richardson:
> > > I know this is going to get me a serious heckling, but...
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, my boss wants me to switch one of our (very stable)
> > > Mandrake servers to Win2000 Pro (only) for a tester. The problem I
> > > keep running into is that I cannot get the server to boot from the
> > > Windows install cd. It goes through bios check, spins the cd for a bit,
> > > and then proceeds on with the normal boot. I have even downloaded the 4
> > > install disks and run into a "disk I/O error" on the first one.
> > >
> > > I talked to Toshiba's support desk (it's a M500 -PIII 500 mHz) and they
> > > said that I need to repartition the disk, then format and install.
> > >
> > > Does this mean wiping out the MBR? What should I do?
> > >
> > > I know all sorts of good jokes automatically come to mind, but this is
> > > fairly serious.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions appreciated,
> > >
> > > Victor
> >
>
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