Dont type "C:\" to get to drive C:. You cannot format the active drive using format.exe.
IF you want to format drive c:
1) boot from a Windows 9x startup disk, which was created from within Windows 98 by going to Control Panel/Add-Remove Programs/Startup Disk.
Then boot from that...
I also attempted to install Windows 2000 Pro on a hard drive which had been formatted using Windows ME.
Windows 2000 simply wont write its boot loader on a hard drive formatted with Windows ME...
Partition and format the hard drive using Windows 9x, if you can..
Don McDaniel
I would like to install Windows 2000 Professional
on a SINGLE NTFS partition.
I CANNOT boot from the CD, even when i set the boot order to boot from CD first in the BIOS (tried it, it didnt work)
I want to install Windows 2000 Pro CLEAN
I do NOT want to dual boot with another operating system.
I...
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