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First OS install, Windows 2000 Pro, how?

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Muftobration

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Hello, I've just finished my first build and I am about to install Windows for the first time. What do I do? What do I need? everywhere I go, everything just assumes that the user knows a bunch of stuff that I don't, I can't get help at any of those places. Can anyone here please help me get started? I tried putting my CD drive as my primary boot device and I inserted my WIN2K CD. It didn't work because the CD is not bootable, I need disks. I don't have the floppy disks I need. Is there a place I can get them? Also, how do I set certain things to have certain drive letters? I want to make my hard drives C and D and have a floppy A and my DVD as F, CD as G. I know A will be floppy by default, but how do I set my HDDs? I'm totally confused.

The way I want to install WIN2K (and have before) is by going into DOS by booting from a boot disk, navigating to my CD and copying the files to my HDD, and installing Windows by navigating to my HDD and running windows as if it were on a CD, but it is actually on my HDD. I can't do that if I don't know my drive letters and don't know how to find out. I can't navigate to places unless I have DOS. I'm stuck for now, please help me!
 
1) What hardware makes up your computer?

2) Do you have a broadband Internet connection such as cable or DSL, or a dial-up one, or will the computer not have any Internet / network connections at all?

3) If you do have a broadband Internet connection and the computer will use it, then do you have a router to provide firewall protection?

4) What service-pack level is your Windows2000 CD at? It should say on it, hopefully it's got Service Pack 4 already integrated.

5) The computer you're using now, does it have a CD burner and a fast connection so you can download necessary stuff and put it onto a CD-R?
 
My coputer has the following:
Motherboard: ASRock 939 Dual SATAII
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3500+
PSU: Aspire 520W
GFX card: HIS Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition
Hard disk Drives: (2X) Maxtor 300GB SATA
LAN Card: Linksys Wireless LAN card
CD/DVD drives: NEC dual layer DVD burner, LITEON 52X CD burner
Floppy drive
 
Oh, sorry, I have a Comcast connection. It's nice and fast so any DL will be no problem. I have a router, Linksys wireless-G one. The Windows 2000 CD is not at service pack 4. I don't know which one it is at, but you specifically pointed out 4 so I assume knoing that is is not at 4 is all that matters. My current computer does have a Cd burner and the Comcast connection.
 
Ok, I will be workin' up a list of things to download. This will take about 15 minutes, so have a snack or something 🙂
 
Items to have saved on a CD-R:



The order that you want to go is this:

FIRST make sure the dasm wireless card is NOT in the system 😛 You do not want this thing having any form of a network connection until YOU are 100% ready, which happens way down at step 10.

1) install Windows by booting from the Windows CD-ROM disc and beginning Windows Setup. I hope you have a genuine Microsoft CD and a valid license, because who knows what's lurking in non-legal versions that people DL off of warez/cracks/P2P sources. I'm sure some offshore Spammer would be delighted to have your Comcast connection at his service... :evil:

As you install Windows, I think it should be pretty self-explanatory. Do give it a decently-strong password for the Administrator account, your AnandTech nickname would work fine since it's long and non-dictionary.

2) After Windows is installed, install Service Pack 4 and reboot.

3) install DirectX 9.0C and reboot

4) install .NET 1.1, then install the post-SP4 Update Rollup and reboot

5) install the MS05-039 Plug-n-Play patch and reboot

6) Notice that I still haven't had you install the video drivers or the mobo drivers yet. That's on purpose 🙂 Now you can get out your ASRock CD and install the motherboard drivers, then reboot.

7) AFTER the mobo drivers and the other preceding stuff, NOW install your video drivers and reboot.

8) Install the Kaspersky security trialware. Max out the real-time and on-demand scanning, go to Threats & Exclusions and select the Extended Databases.

9) Go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Local Security Policy and open Local Security Policy. In the LSP window, right-click on Security Settings and import the high-security workstation template, then go to the Security Options menu within Local Security Policy and make sure it's got Restrict Anonymous at the top set to No access without explicit anonymous permissions instead of None, rely on default permissions too.

10) Now install your wireless NIC or just hook up a cabled connection, as you prefer, and establish a connection.

11) Immediately get your antivirus definitions updated, then drag the system through Windows Update about four times in a row so you can update to IE6SP1, patch .NET, install Windows Media Player 9 and etc.

12) Fire off a defrag session while you have a sandwich 🙂 then come back and install the audio drivers.




Or something like that. 😉 Good luck! If you don't want to buy the Kaspersky to keep using it after 30 days, just uninstall it and consult the security thread at the top of the Software forum here for some free options.
 
Originally posted by: Muftobration
Wow, all that stuff you got just for me? Thank you, thank you very much! 🙂
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What else would I be doing at midnight on a Saturday? 😕


LOL, I need to get a life. But Newegg is always out-of-stock. 😱


 
LOL, I guess you can buy everything at Newegg nowadays! And incase you are wondering, that is where I bought my computer parts. Gotta love newegg.
 
You may know this, but you will need your SATA drivers on a floppy. Otherwise, you will probably not be able to install Win2K on an SATA drive.
 
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