very newbie question.. please help!! Im reinstalling....

[roncarter]

and i erased everything.. (format c🙂
Im trying to reinstall win 2k and the disk is in e drive
when I type setup.exe, it says this program cannot be run in dos mode.

How can I get windows to reinstall? PLEASE HELP!

 

[n0cmonkey]

Why not boot off of cdrom?

 

[roncarter]

<< Why not boot off of cdrom? >>



I did..it goes through some stuff, and then gives me the A prompt (A:\>)

wat do i do

 

[Doh!]

If it's going to the A prompt, you are not booting from the cd. Make sure you have selected cd-drive as the first boot option in bios. If you don't know how to do that or that doesn't work, then just install from dos. At dos, go to the "i386" folder in the win2k cd and type "winnt". Make sure you run "smartdrv.exe" before installing from dos though.

 

[roncarter]

<< If it's going to the A prompt, you are not booting from the cd. Make sure you have selected cd-drive as the first boot option in bios. If you don't know how to do that or that doesn't work, then just install from dos. At dos, go to the "i386" folder in the win2k cd and type "winnt". Make sure you run "smartdrv.exe" before installing from dos though. >>



I did everything that you said. I went through all the steps but now its saying "setup was unalbe to install Windows Bootloader." Anyone know what in the freak this means? and how to fix it?

 

[Buz2b]

I think you are still not booting to the CDROM. You need to go into the BIOS and change the order of booting to CDROM as the FIRST option. Then be sure and save the changes and exit. With the CD in the drive, it should now boot to it with no trouble.

 

[Doh!]

This is what happens when the same question is cross-posted at 4 different locations. The question already has been answered but the members in different forum sections end up wasting time responding the "already" answered question. Let's lock this thread as the original writer indicated he cleared the problem in the other forum section.