reintalling windows 2000 OS (clean installation)

[miscsyl]

I would like to reinstall (clean installatio) Windows 2000 OS. Can someone help me with following please?:

1) How do you perform clean installation of Windows 2000? Basically I want to reformat the drive and install windows 2000. When I reinstalled windows 2000, I am seeing 2 Microsoft windows 2000 options during the boot up - I have to select one of two options; however, only the latest windows 2000 installtion works. Is seems like there are 2 Window 2000 OS - but only 1 works. I don't think I did a clean installtion of Windows 2000 .

2) I have 3 hard drives on my computer. However, I am only detecting 2 hard drives after reinstalling windows 2000. I have c:, d: and X: drives. But now, X: is not detected.

Thanks

 

[desmatic]

For a clean install: boot your computer with the windows 2k cd and format the installation partition. Install all the necessary drivers for your system and your X: drive will probably be there.

 

[miscsyl]

I have done following but I still can not see X: drive:

In windows 2000 set up, I have a following message:

The following list shows the existing partitions & unpartitioned space on this computer.
Use up & down ARROW keys to select an item in the list

- To set up windows 2000 on the selected itme, press ENTER
- To create a partition in the unpartitioned space press C
- To delete the selected partition, press D.

At this point, I have 2 hard drives shown: C: and D: I want to install windows 2000 on C: drive. So

I selected C: and then pressed C; but nothing happens.
I selected C: and then pressed D; again nothing happens.

Only thing I can do is press ENTER - which is installing windows 2000.

When I installed windows 2000, I can not see X: drive. I only see C: and D:

What did I do wrong? Any advice will be appreciated. Thank you.

 

[Tiger]

Highlight the C:\ partition and then press D to delete it.
Create a new C:\ partition then Win2K will allow you to format the partition.
The installer is seeing the current Win2K install and is just installing over the top rather than a clean formatted partition.

 

[miscsyl]

Tiger:

Thank you for the info.

I have tried to delete C: partition; but I can't perform "C" (create a partition) or "D" (delete the selected partition) on C: drive. Only thing I can do with C: is "ENTER" (which is to set up Windows 2000).

However, I think I can delete the partition for D: Haven't done this because I want to install windows 2000 on C: drive.

Another thing:
When Windows 2000 is starting an installation, I was asked to install windows 2000 on D: - not C: It seems like D: is acting as the main drive???

Thanks

 

[MedicBob]

Unhook all other drives except the CD, floppy and your main hard drive. Then boot off of the CD, delete all partitions, size the one partition that you want 2000 on, and don't worry about sizing anything else for you can do it inside of 2000.

 

[miscsyl]

MedicBob:

If I unhook D: and X: drives and then install windows 2000, will D: and X: be detected after windows 2000 installation - after I reconnect D: and X: drives?

Thanks

 

[highmind89]

They certainly should show up. If worst comes to worst and you can't get 2K installation to format your drives, then you can boot off a win98 boot floppy and use fdisk to delete your partitions. Then, install 2k.

 

[elan]

are you setting it up within windows as it wont let you delete the boot partition
you have to boot off the cd and delete the partitions using windows 200 version of fdisk if this doesnt work use dos fdisk and blow the partitions away

 

[msulazy]

<snip>then you can boot off a win98 boot floppy

just make sure that if do ANYTHING with win98 that all of your partitions are in the FAT32 format, as (from my understanding), windows 98 can't read drives formatted using NTFS.

 

[miscsyl]

Update on windows 2000 clean installtion:

I was able to perform a clean installation by booting from the CD. This allowed me to format C: and then perform a clean installation on C: drive.

Questions:
1) I accidentally installed windows 2000 on D: drive (I have C:, D:, and X: drives - physical drives). How can I remove windows 2000 on D: drive. Everytime I restart my computer, I have to select between 2 windows 2000 OS options - where first one being windows 2000 on C: drive. I did format D: from windows 2000 (on C; but I still have windows 2000 option showing up at the start up.

2) How can I make X: to appear on windows 2000. After a clean installation of windows 2000, I can't seem to detect X: drive - I was able to see this before. Do I have to install a driver? I am using Western Digital 80 GB (8 MB cache) hard drive as X: drive.

Thank you.

 

[msulazy]

not sure about 2, but for #1, you should be able to delete one of your two "windows 2000" options from the boot.ini file. that or set your default timeout to 1 sec or something equally short. that way it'll sit there for 1 sec and if you don't choose it'll boot your default. (as long as you've properly set your default as the right one)