I started installing NT last night. First I formatted my harddrive then started with installing NT via DOS. Got all of the set up discs it requires you make along the way (floppy's)--- and then left it installing over night. I come in today and it says that the DOS part of installing is done and to hit Enter to restart my computer (actually two of them since thats what I'm working with) So I do as it says, and it reboots then comes up with the familar 'non system disc, please insert disc and hit enter' what disc is it wanting? Where do I go from here? PLEASE HELP-- NEED TO GET THESE DONE ASAP THANKS!

How large did you make the first partition on the disk???? since you are using DOS did you "format c: /s" [actual command without the ""] and test that it booted?

Perhaps it would be helpful if you clarified what you mean by installing NT via dos? Do you mean you pre-configured/preformatted the drive to have a 2Gig max partition (fat16) and then ran NT setup via the 3 floppies (and the CD)? If not – what then? Also how is the drive currently configured (partitions/formats); and how big is the drive overall? To where on the drive are you installing NT; i.e. which partition etc? Also are you intending a dual-boot dos/NT system, or even a dual/multi-boot with other M$ OS? If so - are you planning for it now – rather than having to rethink everything when the time for dual/multi-boot scenario arrives? If you want a dual/multi-boot system then indicate which OS etc. and folks can help you set it up… If not wishing for a dual-boot (now or at any future time) with dos (or any other OS) and just want an NT only system… then perhaps follow the route as laid out by John Savill at: http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/ArticleID/13848/13848.html Nice, neat simple to follow. Other issues you may (some – you probably will) need to address too – they’re dealt with at these links (they provide various solutions/workarounds). http://www.windows2000faq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=13876 http://www.windows2000faq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=13894 http://www.windows2000faq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=13922 (this one #13922 is by Wanderer in another incarnation – credit where it’s due…) http://www.windows2000faq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=13902

The floppies that you made probally didn't get created right, Even though the copied, and vertified right they might of got messed up along the way, i had the same problem to day. You can download these disks of http://support.buympc.com/downloads/boot.html This might not be the problem but you can try!! BetaTech *_*

He can always make another set (he has the NT CD). If he has dos (with CDROM drivers) installed and the CD to hand, or a dos/'9x bootdisk with CDROM support (and the CD to hand)... Boot to a dos prompt, access the CD; access the i386 and run the command: winnt /ox If he has access to a functioning '9x or a W2K/XP system (or another NT system) and does it from within one of those OS, then it's winnt32 /ox...

actually it's she not he. and thanks for all the help. got it workin pretty good. just havin some issues creating users and networking stuff.. thanks again

Sorry about the gender mistake... not easy to tell "who's what..." from most posted tags... How did you resolve the posted issue?