please explain to me how to use the boot disks to get to the A: prompt i've made boot disk from the cd win disk i've gotten disks from the net and call me stupid but i still don't see where you can go to the A: prompt as in the 98 start up disk. please give a detailed explantion of the procedure and hope that i can follow directions. thanx in advance for the help.

If you are using the ntfs nt file system it is not going to do you that much good in 2000 if you are using fat32 you can do the boot disk like you always have in 98. but because of security issues you will not be able to get to any physical drives you will only be able to see your floppy drive on the ntfs drives fat32 will be ok. programs like symantec ghost will alow you to create boot disks that will allow you to get to the floppy and run ghost to image drives but you still would not be able to go to cdrive the best thing in 2000 with ntfs partitions is booting off the cd to get to the menue to allow you to do some administrative things... hope this helps a little...

call me stupid but with the win 2000 bootup disks i don't see any screen that say boot to A: prompt as in win 98. i am running fat32 file system, anymore information is appreciated.

You must use a Win98 or 95 boot disk to get the A:\ its the only way. The Win 2k disks do not offer the command promt. To make a boot disk in Win 95 or 98 with a disk in the drive goto My Computer right click on the A drive and goto format and choose "copy system files only" then stick that disk in the Win2k machine and boot it.