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Windows 2000 Professional Installation

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f1br0pt1kl

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When I restart, to setup Windows 2000 Professional, it says "this program is not operable in dos".

What's going on here?
 
Do you have your BIOS setup to look for cdrom drive as a boot device? Reorder the BIOS to look on your cdrom first. That will initiate startup.
 
Is your hard disk setup for another OS already? Are you dual booting? Did you do a fresh format before trying to install Win2k?
 
Go make your 4 boot floppies with the makeboot32.exe( I believe) while you are in windows, it is located in the makeboot/makedisk(?) directory. Then boot the computer with those 4 floppies, make sure the CDROM is in the drive when you reboot, all will be well now.

Jim
 
The setup you're trying to use is a windows setup, just boot up with the cd (make sure you have your cd bootable from your bios) and let the setup take it from there. If however you have the files on your hardrive, or your cd wont boot, just go into the i386 folder and run "winnt" that is your DOS setup, I would however use smartdrive with your boot floppy, it will speed things up tremendously.
 
Do you already have Win 98 installed? If you do, can you not just go to your cdrom in Windows 98 and just run setup.exe There is a bootable version of W2k that you can start straight from reboot and having your cdrom as the boot drive that will let the installation proceed. It sounds like you have an upgrade version that you gotta have windows98(i'm not sure if it'll work from either win95 or winme) in order to install. There may be a work-around that will let you install outside of a previous OS. That maybe what the prior posts are about. HTH

KK
 
Thanks guys.

However, I formatted my Boot Disk for WinME, so I can't format.

So now in school (woohoo, a reason to go), I will grab a floppy from someone...

I only have 4 and it takes 4 for the makeboot.exe thing, and I have none more left...damn.

Any more tips?
 
Did you read my thread? You don't need to make the floppy set or format, the win2k cd takes care of that. Just boot from the cd and follow the screens.

If you can't boot from the cd, and you don't have a bootdisk...just go here bootdiskand get a win98 bootdisk to boot up, then go into the i386 folder on the win2k cd and type "winnt" that is the DOS setup executable. I would recommend using smartdrive on your bootdisk if you are installing from DOS to speed things up.
 
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