W2K Pro Installation partitioning problem

[Buggeroo]

I was going to completely clean and reinstall a PC at work, but we do not have a bootable W2K Pro CD-ROM, we only have a "normal" CD-Rom, so i have had to try in other ways to install the OS. I booted from a Windows ME bootdisk and used Fdisk to split the drive into two equally large partitions (the HD is 30GB) which were of course FAT32. Unfortunately when I started Winnt.exe the program stated that it was "unable to install the windows NT bootloader". I was then forced to make a 2GB FAT16 partition to make W2K Pro install, hoping that I would be able to repartition the drive during installation as is normally the case, but the first partition on the drive cannot be deleted during the installation apparently (I have tried several times).

Anybody have any suggestions as to how I can get W2K Pro installed so that I can have my desired two ~15GB partitions with out using a bootable CD-ROM?

 

[dball63]

boot to winme or 98 boot disk
fdisk to create partitions
format your install partition or C:\ with FAT32
insert CD and start winnt.exe.

 

[rblue]

If you have another PC, you can use the bootdisk utility on the CD ROM. It will create Win2k boot floppies for you.

I believe you can find it in the support directory on the CD.

Hope this helps,
rblue

 

[DonaldLeeMcD]

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