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install windows 2000 and clear hard disk
Name: ben johnson Date: January 31, 2002 at 02:08:56 Pacific
Comment:
hi,
is there a possiblity that when i install windows2000 i can clear my hard disk, previously i was using windows 98?
Name: Terry Date: January 31, 2002 at 02:30:52 Pacific
Reply:
If you upgrade from Win98 to 2000, there is a lot of junk left over from win98 that 2000 doesn't get rid of, and it just sits there taking up room on your hard disk. Therefore, I find it better to boot up from a floppy that has a cd rom driver on it, then do a quick format on the C: drive: Format C: /q /u (the U is for unconditional, which doesn't try to save any info for unformat). Then go to the i386 directory on the Win2000 CD rom and run winnt.exe.
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Response Number 2
Name: shawn Date: January 31, 2002 at 04:34:09 Pacific
Reply:
It would be even easier to boot to the Windows 2000 CD and go through the installation procedure. That way you can delete your current partitions and resize as you wish. Select NTFS as the format type and away you go.
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Response Number 3
Name: DAC Date: February 1, 2002 at 00:11:56 Pacific
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Not knowing your system, unit. I would make the 4 boot disks first before formating. Do this using Win98' put W2K disk in CD-ROM.
You can find it on your windows 2000 Pro cd. X:\bootdisk\makeboot.exe Click Start then Run Type>x:\bootdisk\makeboot a:
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