Alrighty....
I work at a college which owns a site license on Win2k. I've got a burned copy of Win2K Professional with SP1 but the fella that put it together for me didn't burn the entire contents of the original CD. Including ... erp ... the /bootdisk directory. So, I can't make Win2K boot disks which means I can't initiate the Win2K setup in DOS. My only option, it seems, is to run the setup from Win98.
I've got a clean system at home that I want to run Win2K on. Does anyone have a work-around to create bootdisk files? If not, I'll be forced to install Win95 (!!) on one of the drives I have laying around, boot to it and then run the Win2K setup from there.
Actually, I'm not even sure I can run Win2K setup in Win95, but I *think* I can.
If I DO install Win95 on a second drive, do I have to be aware of any complications in the Win2K installation related to the use of the second drive? My set up looks like this:
IDE 0 20gb WD HDD: Primary partition C (target of Win2K) and Logical partition E (data)
IDE 1 CD/DVD
IDE 2 CD-RW
IDE 3 old 2gb Quantum HDD: Primary partition D (potental target of Win 95)
Honestly, I've never installed an OS to the slave drive of the secondary IDE channel and I have no clue how things will go. *IF* I install there, do I set up IDE 3 as boot disk in the BIOS? If so, how will that affect the installation of Win2K on IDE 0?
Thanks for the help!
-DSP
I work at a college which owns a site license on Win2k. I've got a burned copy of Win2K Professional with SP1 but the fella that put it together for me didn't burn the entire contents of the original CD. Including ... erp ... the /bootdisk directory. So, I can't make Win2K boot disks which means I can't initiate the Win2K setup in DOS. My only option, it seems, is to run the setup from Win98.
I've got a clean system at home that I want to run Win2K on. Does anyone have a work-around to create bootdisk files? If not, I'll be forced to install Win95 (!!) on one of the drives I have laying around, boot to it and then run the Win2K setup from there.
Actually, I'm not even sure I can run Win2K setup in Win95, but I *think* I can.
If I DO install Win95 on a second drive, do I have to be aware of any complications in the Win2K installation related to the use of the second drive? My set up looks like this:
IDE 0 20gb WD HDD: Primary partition C (target of Win2K) and Logical partition E (data)
IDE 1 CD/DVD
IDE 2 CD-RW
IDE 3 old 2gb Quantum HDD: Primary partition D (potental target of Win 95)
Honestly, I've never installed an OS to the slave drive of the secondary IDE channel and I have no clue how things will go. *IF* I install there, do I set up IDE 3 as boot disk in the BIOS? If so, how will that affect the installation of Win2K on IDE 0?
Thanks for the help!
-DSP
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