New OS

[SnipeMasterJ13]

I realize that this is the wrong forum, but no one answers in the other ones like you guys do. Can any of you help me out on this?....

My friend wanted me to fdisk his computer and throw a new operating system on it for him. He was running ME and it was loaded with viruses and spyware and all that happy stuff. I made a start up disk on my machine (XP Pro) and went on with the fdisk. I deleted all partitions and created a primary and restarted and now im stuck. I tried to format c but it wont let me. I tried doing "format c:/s" and extract ebd.cab format.com and then tried again and it says it no longer supports the "/s" command. I'm trying to install windows 2000 pro. Can anyone tell me what im doing wrong?

 

[toekramp]

you don't need to format, windows will do it for you during the setup

 

[MazerRackham]

Set the first boot device in BIOS to be the CD drive. Restart with the Win2k CD in there, and you're all set. Delete the partition from the windows installer, and then install.

 

[FoBoT]

yeah, just boot the w2k cd and install to c:

 

[SnipeMasterJ13]

Thanks guys, the first time i tried that it came up and said press any key to boot from cd, and then i did and it said missing operating system. So then i tried the whole format c: stuff to no avail. I hit any key this time around and now its loading. Thanks again.

 

[TitanDiddly]

Look in your BIOS settings for boot order.

 

[ultimatebob]

And make sure to keep the poor thing behind a firewall until you get service pack 4 and all the hotfixes on there!

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: ultimatebob
And make sure to keep the poor thing behind a firewall until you get service pack 4 and all the hotfixes on there!

yeah, if you put that on raw internet , you'll have sasser before you can get windows update run

 

[SnipeMasterJ13]

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: ultimatebob
And make sure to keep the poor thing behind a firewall until you get service pack 4 and all the hotfixes on there!

yeah, if you put that on raw internet , you'll have sasser before you can get windows update run

There will be no raw internet for me, like i said its my friends computer. And another reason is that there is no NIC card so i would have to dial up (i dont even want to think about doing that again...you cant make me go back!). Ill let him know though when i get it back to him though. Thanks again everyone.