Satrn
June 20th, 2003, 06:26 AM
I am trying to create a win 2k boot disk, i plan to format and upgrade from win 2k pro to win xp. any help or suggestions would be appreciated thanks
PostCode
June 20th, 2003, 01:59 PM
You can get NT4, 2K, and XP bootdisks at Bootdisk.com
Bootdisk.com (http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm)
Hope this helps.
EvilHorace
June 29th, 2003, 04:53 PM
After booting up an older PC that hasn't been running in months, everything was working fine UNTIL I thought that I should upgrade the Win2K SW. So the upgrade scan finds 13 new upgrades for it and picks SP4 to begin with (already had SP3 installed too) so I go with that and it locks up during the final part of its install. It now won't boot in Win2K, not even in safe mode or trying "last good configuration" from the menu after pressing F8. It'll try loading Windows but the screen goes black, power saving mode message comes on and it the re-boots the PC.
Someone from another site told me about Bootdisc.com, one of the 2 listed file sites had an extratable set that looks like it'd work, fit on the floppies (Kurts link http://www.tech24.com/help/tools/bootdisks/win2kpro.asp, NOT those shown by Dr Device as I can't seem to get his "image files" to load, not with his added utility either)
BUT...............made the 4 discs, tryed as I would with Win98 (booting with disc1 in the floppy, how else?) BUT I then get an error as it's trying to boot past the bios stuff:
"NTLDR is missing".
Don't know how to get past that.
I've tryed F8 "enable boot mode" and every other selection listed but it just locks up everytime it tries to start Win2K.