Installing windows 2K

[Duneguy]

alright i got a new computer today hurray!, and i go to install windows 2k cause there is no OS, but it says there is no boot record. i have the bios reading from the cr-rom for the boot record where it is, but to no prevail.. i downloaded boot disks for my floppy, but my floppy disks are only reading 1.38 megs a disk, which really pisses me off cause i need 1.40 anyhow i have windows 95, is there some way i can install that then install 2k and get rid of 95 or something?

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i tried just putting in the win. 95 cd to no prevail also...i also have MS-DOS disketts to install ms-dos that help any??

[gryphon]

You can install DOS 6.whatever from a diskette, then your CDrom drivers and run the file setup.exe from the Win2K CDrom. Installing DOS and a CDrom driver takes about 5 minutes at most. If you'd prefer to install Win98 first you can do so and then place the Win2K Cdrom in yopur drive. It will probably autostart. If it doesn't just run the same file as mentioned before.

Install Win2k and then format the partition where Win98 wsa located at and you will be ok.

[Duneguy]

ok i got dos 6.2 installed how do i install the CDROM drivers from there?? ohh and i type in DIR to get a directory and i only get a:(floppy)(B:(secondary floppy) c:(hard drive)

alright i the drivers now.... well i go to install the drivers and it sayd cannot find the MSDEX.exe or something to that effect. says it should be in the dos folder but it is not.. where can i get this or can i??

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CDR101: not ready reading Drive D

What do i do to fix this??

[gryphon]

On how many Diskettes did your DOS version came ?, and did you format the partition before you installed DOS on it ?

The setup.exe file should be in the root of the Win2K CDrom. Your CDrom drive will most likely be D:.

If you installed DOS 6.22 I can see if I have a MSDEX.exe file somewhere. i fnot I'll have to look at MS for it this midday or so. :)

[number6]

You can get MSCDEX.exe from here:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/dos622/Utility/2.23/DOS/EN-US/Mscdx223.exe

More info on mscdex.exe can be found here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q123/4/08.asp&NoWebContent=1

Here is some info on command line switches for mscdex.exe:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q87/1/65.ASP&NoWebContent=1

[Ice_Cube]

Your CDrom drive will most likely be D:.

Sometimes it sets it two letters higher than you hard-drive so if you hard-drive is C:, the CDrom drive might be E: ;)

[Duneguy]

alright heres the update. i got the cd drivers installed and going alright, and from dos i start up the windows 200 setup, well i get 100% done and it tells me its going to reboot and then take over from there, well when i reboot it says NTLDR IS MISSING HIT ANY KEY TO RESTART. i went into dos again and NTLDR is sitting right there...can anyone explain what to do?

[gryphon]

you'r doing ok sofar :)

Could you boot up the DOS partition and type in fdisk /mbr. That would clear it from any possible boot loader installed in it.

After that you install Win2000 again and then when it [ just after you have pressed F8 to accept the lisence ] asks on which partition you would like to install it delete the DOS partition on the disk [ and preferably any other on it so it's clean disk ]. And make a new one. Format it using NTFS.

Think it should work whitout any problems then. :)

[Duneguy]

alright im still having the problem with NTLDR! what do i do, triesd installing XP also and t says taht file is missing, yet it installed it...:S

[gryphon]

This is a topic at Microsoft about it.

Did you format the new partition with NTFS ?

The main idea is that you copy the NTLDR file from the Win2K CDrom to your harddrive, in the C: directory.

You can do this by copying it directly from the CDrom or first by copying it to a diskette. You need to boot your system from the Win2K cdrom and then go to the recovery mode where you can enter the DOS prompt. Or via a boot diskette and copy the file.

[Duneguy]

with a good solid drop kick and a box of pop-tarts and luck, i got it to work thank you everyone

[gryphon]

Good to see that it finally works. Hope you'll enjoy using Win2K. :)

O, and you might not wan'ne upgrade to service pack 4 yet. It can give a few errors while upgrading. 3 will work fine if you want to install a servce pack.