How Do I Install Windows 2000 after a reformat?

[eshtog]

every time I try it it says program cannot be run in dos mode? but when I try to install in in windows 98 I install it and everything but I still have the Windows 98 Folder left it didnt get deleted even after I said clean install in win 2000 options?

 

[Yzzim]

go into your BIOS and boot from the CD
put the Win2k cd in the cd-rom drive and then you're off

 

[Playmaker]

With your win2k cd in the drive change the prompt to x:/i386/ where x is your cd drive. Then type winnt.

 

[dcdomain]

Do what Playmaker said. Basically run Winnt.exe from the i386 folder on your cd. Don't even need the stupid bootdisks (freaking 4? gotta be kidding me). Anyway, before you do, find Smartdrv.exe and run that sucker twice. Don't ask me why, but first time, it doesn't work, you have to run it the second time then it'll give you some message or something. It's a caching utility that will make your Win2K installation time go WAAAAY quicker. If you can't find it on the Win2K cd, look in someone's Win98 computer and copy the file.