Does booting from Win2k CD and run install count as a fresh install?

[yata]

For all Win2k users, there's a fresh install option when loading the comp with the CD. Does this do the work as "format" as in clear out everything on the HD? This way I don't have to format from DOS and go through the whole thing again.

 

[BlvdKing]

I didn't know you could load from the CD... I have my computer set up to boot from CD first; when I have the Windows 2000 CD in the machine it bypasses the CD. How did you get yours to work from the CD (I hate having to insert four disks just so I can run CHDK).

 

[yata]

Shoot! Really? I have a different kind of Win2k CD, a different story, if you want to know. The comp. show "press any key to boot from CD......" All of you guys, Blvdkind, cannot boot from your OS CD's? But even then, there's the fresh install option if you open the install file on the CD, right?

 

[urbantechie]

In order to boot off the Win2k CD or ANY CD, you have to set the boot order in CMOS for the CD-ROM to be priority #1. A Clean install is when you Format/FDISK a drive. Clean slate really. So to do a clean install, boot off the CD. When it asks you to choose which partition to install to, delete the one you have now. Then create a new one and format it NTFS or FAT32. That would be a clean install.