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John |
posted on 5th Jun 06 at 20:11 |
If its not bootable its a dodgy bad copy that somebodys tampered with somewhere. | |
abdus |
posted on 5th Jun 06 at 20:04 |
quote: i dont have a floppy drive :D and already installed win98, 2000, xp, 2003, longhorn:thumbs: [Edited on 05-06-2006 by abdus] | |
Dan B |
posted on 5th Jun 06 at 19:57 |
quote: It "should", but on the off-chance it doesn't, it's handy to have the floppies available! Not all Windows CDs are bootable... | |
John |
posted on 5th Jun 06 at 17:44 |
The cd should boot without they annoying floppys. | |
Dan B |
posted on 5th Jun 06 at 17:31 |
No, they're the boot-disks for the operating-system. | |
JJ |
posted on 5th Jun 06 at 11:06 |
quote: Fook me :) Are the downloads on that site the full program??? Im in work at the mo so cant download just yet!!!! Cheers dude :) | |
Dan B |
posted on 5th Jun 06 at 00:16 |
quote: Go here, download (and create, by following the "readme" instructions) the 4 boot-disks for Windows 2000, and then follow the instructions originally posted......I wasn't making the assumption as to whether it was a valid copy of Windows or not! :P | |
abdus |
posted on 4th Jun 06 at 16:58 |
just change your boot sequence in bios putting cd drive as first. | |
JJ |
posted on 4th Jun 06 at 15:45 |
quote: emmm its not a legit copy of win 2000 and comes on 1 disc :| | |
Dan B |
posted on 4th Jun 06 at 15:35 |
Pop in the first of the four Windows 2000 boot-disks......after it's loaded everything it needs into memory, it'll give you the option to format & partition the drive(s) as required. | |
Marc |
posted on 4th Jun 06 at 15:34 |
You should be able to run the Win2000 discs and will auto format. | |
JJ |
posted on 4th Jun 06 at 15:28 |
ok, i have a really old comp layin about, its runnin win 98 not second edition, gonna use it for some stuff on the net but its really really slow, it comes with a boot disc to reinstall everythin back to factory settings, i want to install windows 2000 as this should help it run better, but can i install over the current version of win 98 or do i have to remove it first??? thing is the boot disc has all the drivers for key board etc and need it to install graphics card etc??? also its a tiny... |