Reloading Win2K?

[Boomyal]

My daddy's P4-1.7 ghz unit has gone whacko. I'm gonna reload his operating system. I think he gets all gummed up with yada yada ware.

When I insert the Windows CD, will it give me the opportunity to partition the drive. I want to give him a C and D drive so if this happens again he'll have all his data on the D partition. Also what format should I use? FAT32 or that N format?

Also I tried to get into his bios but nothing seemed to work. It just booted right on thru to Win 2K. F8 would give me the safe mode options but that was all I could deviate.

 

[colonel_sanders]

Re: Reloading Win2K?

My daddy's P4-1.7 ghz unit has gone whacko. I'm gonna reload his operating system. I think he gets all gummed up with yada yada ware.

When I insert the Windows CD, will it give me the opportunity to partition the drive. I want to give him a C and D drive so if this happens again he'll have all his data on the D partition. Also what format should I use? FAT32 or that N format?

Also I tried to get into his bios but nothing seemed to work. It just booted right on thru to Win 2K. F8 would give me the safe mode options but that was all I could deviate.

use ntfs,. otherwise you mostly defeat most of the point of 2000.

typically repeatedly pressing f1 or delete (depends on the bios maker) right after post (the beep when you turn it on) will get you to bios.
(it should say on the screen, or maybe say "press esc for details or something to that effect)

once in bios set the first boot device to the cd-rom,. and it should then boot off the win 2k disc

 

[Boomyal]

Re: Reloading Win2K?

Thanks DelRay, how about the drive partitioning?

 

[Xcusme]

Re: Reloading Win2K?

Hey Boomyal, you knew I'd chime in, didn't ya? Well anyway, I agree, use the NTFS, the security of W2K depends on it along with the benefits of improved HD performance (along with other good stuff).

As for the partitioning, yes , you'll be offered the option to first delete the existing partition(s) and then create a new one. Make the new partition any size you want. Unless you have a slip streamed version of the OS CD (with SP2), you'll have to add the SP2 update to get full use of partitions over 136 gigs. You'll do the update after the OS is installed.

Say you have a 200 gig HD. You can split the drive into two 100 gig partitions, C and D. When you install the OS, you'll see the full size of the HD, but you'll enter 100 gigs as the first partition , then format with NTFS and the OS will install. After the OS is installed, you can go into Control Panel, Administrative Tools,Computer Management, Disc Management. Here you will see the remaining un partitioned space on the physical HD. Right click on the undefined space and click on partition. Let the OS partition the unused space and format. That should do it for ya. d

 

[Boomyal]

Re: Reloading Win2K?

Ah yes Xcusme. It all comes back to me now. I don't know how you remember all this stuff. I learn it once, then poof, it disappears. :0