Clean installation of Win2K: something went wrong

[spoma]

I had 98SE loaded on my pc and did a clean installation of Win2K. I choose to repartition the harddrives and format but it would not allow me to repartition or format c: where 98 was stored. So, I ended up with both 98SE and Win2K on the same partition.
Is therre a way to get rid of 98 or do I have to reinstall everything and if so how do I do it so that I only have win2K?

 

[djs1w]

fdisk the drive then install win2k

edit: assuming you have win2k boot disks or your win2k cd is bootable

 

[spoma]

I assume I can make a win2K boot disk. Is this a correct assumption.
I tried to use wipe the hard drive repartition usinf fdisk and reformat the hard drive. then when I put the cd in and typed setup.exe it would not do it.

 

[stingray2]

spoma, as of now.. when you boot.. do you get the boot menu? that allows you to choose between Win98se and Win2K? if you do, and you really don't want to format your c:\ drive (loose what every you have there), then why don't you boot to Win2k, and then blow away your C:\windows folder. it will contain most of what was Win98se. then edit your boot.ini file, remove the Windows98se option. from there you should be fine. that is just one way.

 

[spoma]

i realize i can do that and just remove the windows directory. i disabled it showing me the boot menu in win2k. how do i create a boot disk in win2k? so that i can try wiping everything and then reinstalling it alone or with another os correctly in separate partitions.

 

[Junior77]

Go to the boodisk directory on the c: drive and run makeboot.exe It requires 4 floppies.

 

[loosbrew]

on the win2k cdrom, dir BOOTDISK file name makeboot32. that will make the 4 win2k bootdisks.

loosbrew

 

[spoma]

thanks guys!!

 

[stingray2]

Let me preface; I am no WIN2k expert, just a user. and I am always open to constructive criticism.
spoma, you want a boot disk for Win2k? correct me if I am wrong, and I know you guys will, but the makeboot32 file makes the disks that you use when you want to install Win2k on your machine. it really can't be used to do what you want, like wiping everything.. can it?? If you are still
using FAT32 (or FAT16, god forbid), which you must be.. you can make a win98 boot disk, then transfer over files like DELTREE.exe and XCOPY.* from your C:\WIndows\command directory to your bootable floopy.. then when you boot from this disk you can FDISK, and FORMAT, and or Delete whold folders (DELTREE).. ect.. but those 4 boot disks that are created by MAKEBOOT32 don't do anymore then if you booted from your Win2k CD rom. right?
But if you convert over to NTFS from FAT32, booting from a floopy would be really difficult, not impossible, but certainly not from the those 4 boot disks... right?

 

[jhites]

Win2K cd is bootable. If your bios/mobo supports boot from cdrom, boot from the cd and follow the prompts to fdisk, format, etc.