Installation of Win2000 Server.

[AlexRadu]

Hi. Last night I have fdisk-ed the drive, created the partitions C & D, formatted them (Format C, and tried to run setup.exe from the CD. Which "does not run in DOS mode". Oh well, let's try to boot from the CD. It really doesn't do it. I booted again with the floppy, installed win98 (only to be able to install win2K's setup.exe !) and then ran win2k's setup.exe (finally). When started it said that it can't install over a previous installation of win9X, so I had only one option - "Clean Install". I did that, and it worked perfectly. However, now I am prompted on whether to boot in Win2K or "windows", and on my drive I have both C:\winnt and C:\windows. Now what am I doing wrong ?

Q: Should I erase everything and install it otherwise, or should I simply delete the C:\windows and edit the win.ini file so that it does not prompt me anymore ?

Thanks
Alex

 

[dxd]

You would edit the boot.ini to remove the menu choice for Windows. The boot.ini is read-only so you must first remove that attribute. Delete the line that indicates Windows as an option. Save the file and put the read-only attribute back on.

Both NT and W2K will do this if Dos/Windows 9x is installed prior...it is not really a problem.

 

[mantislee]

If you want only Win2K you will have to create a set of boot disks from the Win2K CD. I belive it will take 4 floppies. This will allow you to fdisk and format your hard drive then reboot with disk one in the drive. Follow the prompts from there. [sig]<p>William L. Smith<br><a href=mailto:mantislee@yahoo.com>mantislee@yahoo.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>AOL Nick: Mantislee<br>
Network Admin(with NT4, NT5,95,98,2000Pro OS's), Exchange Admin, GoldMine Admin,[/sig]

 

[bobleona]

alexradu,
I think I understand your problem. You might have not deleted the fat filing system when you did you installation of w2k. If you did and you still see the boot to &quot;windows, or w2k.&quot; Then just edit your Boot.ini file. You can find this in your C-drive.
After opening up My computer=>C drive, to to Tools on the menu bar then folder options, view. select show all hidden files and folders, and uncheck Hide unprotected system files. This will show you the boot.ini on your C drive. just edit with notepad, and don't for get to check the default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(XXXX)\WINNT. Where x's is the partition you default to. Then after this go to disk management to see what partiton you actually have. If you don't want windows on there you can just delete it. All your boot files are stored in the system partiton anyway.

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[AlexRadu]

Thank you very much for your help. Both my computers are now correctly set up and work just fine.

Thanks, Alex
;-)
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