Help with Windows 2000 Installation

[Touchdown]

Last night I installed Windows 2000 and when it finished it turned out that I now have a dual boot system with Win98, not what I really want. What I would like to do is to try another install and have just Win2000. Could you let me know if what I plan to do sounds correct.

1. I have two 20 gig drives. Move all files I want (.mp3, .jpg, .doc's) to my D: drive.
2. Reboot w/ my Win98 startup disk & run format c: (my Win2000 CD doesn't have format on it?)
3. Reboot with my bootable Win2000 disk and install Win 2000

Am I missing anything? Should I be running fdisk or setting partitions? I don't know a whole lot about that but would be willing to do it if it would increase system performance. Thanks for your hlep!

 

[Locutus of Board]

Just delete the windows 98 directory, and remove it out of boot.ini.

Also in boot.ini place the delay on 0 so w2k starts immediately.

 

[Touchdown]

Thanks for the fast reply. How do I remove it out of boot.ini? Do I use a text editor for that?

 

[Locutus of Board]

When you are booted in w2k:

It should be on the root of C:

You'll need to remove the read-only attribute and use notepad for example.

 

[igiveup]

Win 2k should give you the option during install of where you want to install the thing. Tell it a clean install, and tell it to format whatever you want. NTFS is the popular one around here but my older hardware doesn't like it much.