Trying to Go from XP home to Win2000 problems

[jmeservy]

I am trying to take a computer from XP home to Win2000. I have told to format c and start fresh. This is my first time reformatding a hard drive. I am at the a prompt after starting with a 98 bootdisk and when I type format c: it tells me format not supported on drive c:

Help
Jason
(definatly not as geek as I think I am)

 

[linney]

Is this a NTFS partition?

You may have to delete it with Fdisk first. The Home CD or 2000 CD should have all the tools you need to perform these steps.

HOW TO: Partition and Format a Hard Disk in Windows XP (Q313348)

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q313/3/48.asp

Read the paragraph,
"How to Partition and Format Your Hard Disk by Using Windows XP Setup."

Stop setup after the partition is formatted.

 

[jmeservy]

OK. Got that one figured out. Thanks.

However, now I am at another problem. The cd-rom on the guys computer is bad. I have a spare working cd-rom connected to the computer. (I did verify it worked with the computer before I started.) I do not have the real driver. I downloaded a driver for it from creative - the newest one they have is for 98se. It still will not recognize it.

 

[Bl0x]

Make sure th jumpers are set right in on the drive and that you can see it whrn the bios posts.
then set the bios to boot from cd rom stick the 2000 disc in let it format the drive to ntfs and you are good to go