Hi,
i am trying to install win 2000 pofessional, i had it before, but i formated my HD because of a virus, now, i need to start with win 98 boot, to detect the cdrom and start to copy the 2000 files using the winnt.exe. th winnt32.exe did not work with DOS. In the end it ask me to reboot without disk boot, right after it send me a mensage like, disk without system, please put a system and press boton.
i tryed i think everything, formating in fat 16, fat 32 , just one partition, 2 partition, i tryed too change the boot order...
using fdisk and formating after, without formating( tha way, it even dodn't start to copy).
i don;t know what do more, may i will try delpart.
please some help, thanks

Blank the hard drive ( I would use the HD manufactures utilities), boot to the W2000 CD or the four boot floppies and do a fresh installation. I don't see any reason this won't work!

PS: I've never had good luck with fdisk. It doesn't erase the hard drive, just makes the space rewritable. I use Ontrack's "Data Eraser" and make all sectors "00". Ontrack has a demo download that works once. Email me if you need more help.

There are four Windows 2000 Setup Boot floppies. The first one is bootable. To make a set of these disks, insert the Windows 2000 CD in a CD-ROM drive on any computer running Windows or MS-DOS with the drivers for CD-ROM drive access.

In Windows 2000, 9X or Me: Start, Run, enter D:\bootdisk\ makebt32 a: where D: is your CD-ROM drive.

In Windows 9X or Me: Start, Run, enter D:\bootdisk\makeboot a: where D: is your CD-ROM drive.
By the way, are you using a SCSI Hard drive? if so, you need to load the SCSI driver during the first floppy, I think press F6, but the system won't ask for the SCSI driver until between the second and third boot disk.
Good Luck

Dick/Patrick have given you the basics: and if you don't have a running OS to hand - with which to make the four floppies... then I think you can download a set at:

http://www.bootdisk.com

But then again, if you can access the above site, then you have a system with which you can make the floppies...?

Ok, Patrick, first i just can creat the makeboot, because my other os is a W98 and it didn~t let me use the bootds32.exe.
i tryed before the 4 disks, but in the 2º it stop because of a vga*.fon fole error 4, even trying installing direct orcriating the thirth (f6) in the beganing.
I can copy and even start to install, but in the end , after coping the roll thing, it tell me to reboot and it lose the syst or whatever, give the status: no system in this drive, try again with another, but a tryed to change the boot sequency and nothing.
i tryed to reparting with delpart and format after but still the same problem, i dosnçt have idea, don´t seams i have hardware problem, it is all working.
ps i ctrl+ alt+ dell during a formating w98 before all this situation, can it afect me now?
thanks

If you are using a 98 boot disk on a clean install of win2k, this should be a simple fix. Reformat the drive by using this command:
FORMAT C: /S
or, if you don't want to format again (although I recommend that you do) try running:
SYS C:
from your A: drive. This will copy the windows sys files to your HDD, thus making the drive bootable. This should make your problem go away.