Hey all! Here's one for you all to help me figure out. I didn't find an exact solution to the problem at microsoft either. Now, I have a windows2000 pro o.s. and i created the erd disks with the makebt32 utility from the coomand line. Made sure that i had the floppy diskette drive to boot first in the BIOS and then rebooted with the first erd disk in the floppy drive. I don't get any welcome to setup screen, but i get a DISK I/O ERROR Was wondering if anyone came across this error in their travels creating and using erd's with windows 2000 pro? thx...peace an out!

The ERD disks are not meant to be bootable. You have to start the install process from the Windows 2000 install CD, or Install floppies and then select the repair process. From the Windows 2000 Getting Started booklet: To restore your settings from the Emergency Repair Disk 1. For Intel-based computers, use the Windows 2000 Setup disks or the Windows 2000 Professional CD to start your computer. After Setup finishes copying files from the Setup disks, the system restarts, and text-based installation mode starts. 2. At the Welcome to Setup screen, press R to select the option to repair or recover a Windows 2000 installation. 3. When prompted to enter the type of repair or recovery option required, press R to repair a damaged Windows 2000 installation. 4. Click either Fast repair or Manual repair. Press M for Manual repair if you want Setup to selectively repair system files, the partition boot sector, or the startup environment. Manual repair doesn't repair the registry. Press F for Fast repair if you want Setup to automatically attempt to repair system files, the partition boot sector, and the startup environment. The registry Setup restores is the one created when you first installed Windows 2000. Fast repair doesn't require additional user interaction. 5. Follow the instructions that appear and insert the ERD when prompted. If you have the original Windows 2000 CD, you can have Setup verify your disk (check for corruption). When the repair process is complete, your computer restarts and Windows 2000 runs.