Win 2K Boot Disks HELP

[crase]

I tried to help a friend with an old computer of his (14BG PIII 933 128MB RAM - first mistake- Win ME).

I ended up having to format the hard drive. I'd had it with ME. When I boot the machine now - with a clean drive - I get an invalide boot diskette error (insert in A:).

I'm trying to load Win 2K on the machine now (with my backup copy - non bootable). Of course the non bootable cd doesn't work. Gateway told me to go to bootdisk.com for the floppys. I did. I downloaded cd1 cd2 cd3 cd4 and 2 exe. files (the cds downloads are zipped). When I unzip the file and try to save them to floppy- the floppy runs out of room! I assumed I would need 4 floppies and have no idea what to do with the makeboot.exe and makebt32.exe files.

I'm good with instuction! Can someone tell me how to make these diskettes work - so I can get on with installing the operating system!!!!!

Best,
Crease

[degsy]

Welcome :)

Your friend need to get their own version of the Operating Sysytem, otherwise you are breaking the EULA.


If in Windows then download the 4 disk images and extract them.
Download and run makebt32.exe

run makebt32.exe and it will create the startup disks.
http://bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

[crase]

Degs,


Agreed on the OS. It was a 'hammy-dwn' system and the disks are lost.

I'm working on a seperate system away from the problem machine right now. I have already downloaded the 4 zipped cd files/images, and 2 exe. They're sitting on my desk top as we speak. When extracted them to floppy - they're too big (although when zipped they appear to be 900kb). When I extact them I mean - I double clicked the zipped file - and set them to unzip to the selected folder (A:). Is this correct?

Where I do this I get an error - DISK FULL. If I save the zipped files to floppy and take them back to the old machine- that doesn't help.

[crase]

Degs,


Sorry for the reply - I think I understand what you saying. My apologies -

will advise....

[crase]

Degs,


I downloaded all and ran mkboot.exe - It asks me to specify the drive - when I touch the keyboard the command line and window DISSAPEAR.

Am I doing something wrong. I doesn't write anything to the floppy drive when I touch "a".

[crase]

I'm trying to make a win 2000 boot disk and when i run the exe file to try to create the boot disks it prompts me to specify the floppy drive. Any key I press stops the program from creating the boot disks. Please advise
This guy had the same problem in february- but there were no responses.


ANYONE!!!! Help.

[degsy]

Download the files.
Create a new folder (on the desktop) and extract the files

In this folder you should now have

makebt32.exe
CDBOOT1.IMG
CDBOOT2.IMG
CDBOOT3.IMG
CDBOOT4.IMG

now run makebt32.exe


This program creates the Setup boot disks
for Microsoft Windows 2000.
To create these disks, you need to provide 4 blank,
formatted, high-density disks.
Please specify the floppy drive to copy the images to:

press a

You should now get

Insert one of these disks into drive a:.
This disk will become the Windows 2000 Setup Boot Disk.
Press any key when you are ready.

Note! It is essential to have all the files extracted to the same folder.

[crase]

yes. yes. yes. yes. THANK YOU!!!


IS there anything I should be away of when booting the systerm from floopy? I'm assuming I'll be able to run the win 2K setup cd at some point?

Thanks A LOT.

[degsy]

It should be fine.
When you use the floppies to start the setup it will ask for the location of the setup files (I386 folder).

Just direct it to the CD.
I usually copy the I386 folder to the HDD and install from there.