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Reformatting and Installing WIN2k Clean on 80 systems!

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I will be undergoing this task along with my friend soon for a local computer company. I am pretty sure on how to go about doing thing, but not 100%. First on the reformation of each CPU. I just go to DOS? See Im not too sure on how to REFORMAT. Heh, well kinda. I am on Win2k now, but the last time I reformatted was like 2 years ago.

On installing WIN2k, I am pretty sure I will just be using the CD that they provide me, and from a CLEAN REFORMAT. Can someone please tell me the steps needed to do this, I think I can just put the CD in, use a Boot Disk, and get to the SETUP and install. Maybe this is wrong. Windows 2000 Professional installation, I need some help with it, especially when I will be doing it on 80 systems, so I will want to be complete, and not have to take up too much time on any one system.

Thanks, and as you can see I really need some help!

-timers
 
As long as all the systems have the same configuration, Ghost is the only way to go.
 
ghost is a disk imaging program.
if all of your pcs are the same you can do one reference installation on a clean hd and then make an image and install this image onto the hds of the other machines. everything works great.
i have done this for large instalations, it's the only way to go except for dedicated HD cloaning stations which a project of this size doesnt merit.
 
Are they on a Network? If so, and are going to use Win2K server, you can do a remote install over the network on to each system. Are the systems all the same? To Format a HD, you need a Win98 startup disk that has the format.exe file on it, just boot to the Win98 startup floppy and from the A: type Format C: /s so that it looks like this: A:format C: /s , or you can leave out the /s and just use A:format C: then install Win2K off of the CD. You can save yourself alot of time if these compuiters are the same and all on a network, or if they are the same, definately use Ghost, it will save you days. Good Luck.
 
So I just use Norton Ghost after I have successfully FORMATTED one HD, and did a clean install of WIN2k, and set up all the drivers and what not. Then I just start up WIN2k, install Norton Ghost(Norton Utils 2k) or whatever. Then I start up Ghost, and clone the whole HD. Then I go to my second system, FORMAT IT, then what do I do?
 
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