I just bought a reconditioned Compaq Armada M700 and I can't for the life of me figure how to install WIN2K!!! I made the boot disks from bootdisk.com, but I can't have the CD drive AND the floppy in the bay at once. I start running the bootdisks, then it says there's no CD found. Of COURSE not, the FLOPPY drive is in it now! Any help? Thanx in advance.

Change your BIOS to boot to the CD. Then boot to your Windows 2000 CD, and install with the CD. Booting to the CD will allow you to format, fdisk, partation etc.. You don't need a floppy. Hank

I looked at the bios, and it said that boot from multibay was first. I put the 2000 disk in the CD drive, boot up and it says "Invalid system disk". There must be something I'm not doing right.

It may not be a bootable CD. Usualy you can get a small cable to attach and extra device. Like if you Floppy drive is in the computer, you can attach the CD via a cable. The easiest thing is to ask a friend if they have a bootable 2K CD.

Your simplest option, failing a bootable CD, would be to download a W98 bootdisk and an XCOPY-type program (XXCOPY?) from bootdisk.com. Boot with the floppy and FDISK and format the HD as FAT32 (large disk support). SYS C: to make the HD bootable. You'd then need config.sys and autoexec.bat files on the HD to provide CDROM support in DOS. With the XCOPY clone on the HD, you can boot from the HD and XCOPY the I386 folder structure from CD to the HD. Run WINNT.exe in the I386 folder to install W2000. If you want further help with this method, post back. Of course, if you want NTFS rather than FAT32, you'll need a bootable CD.

If you cant get your hands on a bootable CD but have access to a CD writer you can download the Win2k boot image and create your own bootable cd. Do a google search on boot cd image and you should be able to find them.