Installing W2000 on new drive

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Installed new hard drive on secondary IDE (designated D:)
and CDROM is E: Old h/d is C:,of course. Want to install
2000SP2 on new h/d. Would it be easier to make new drive
the boot drive b4 installing or is there a safe way of
doing it thru old drive (98SE)? Please help!
 
Boot into Win 98 and start Win 2k setup from there. If I remember correctly,
there is an "advanced" setting in the first stages of Win 2k setup where you
can have Win 2k installed to your D drive.

A boot menu will be set up, where you can choose which OS you want to boot
into, automatically.


hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE
 
Would that be the area, after entering prod key, that has
3 options: accessibility,advanced,[something else i dont
remember] -- under Advanced: W2000 files location [E:\],
system installation folder [\WINNT]. Should I change this
to "D:\WINNT"? Thanks in advance!
 
Yes that's it.

DDS
bronxxbabe said:
Would that be the area, after entering prod key, that has
3 options: accessibility,advanced,[something else i dont
remember] -- under Advanced: W2000 files location [E:\],
system installation folder [\WINNT]. Should I change this
to "D:\WINNT"? Thanks in advance!
-----Original Message-----
Boot into Win 98 and start Win 2k setup from there. If I remember correctly,
there is an "advanced" setting in the first stages of Win 2k setup where you
can have Win 2k installed to your D drive.

A boot menu will be set up, where you can choose which OS you want to boot
into, automatically.


hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE




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entered prod key, made d:\WINNT change, had to restart.
Upon restart, was given option: Please Select Operating
System To Start: 1. Microsift Windows 2000 Professional
Setup or 2. Microsoft Windows. I chose #1. Then msg
appears: The Operating System CD that you are attempting
to install was not distributed with this computer. Setup
cannot continue. CTRL-ALT-DEL only takes me back to same
msg and to get out, i must select #2 -- unless I F8 and go
into W2000 Advanced Options Menu. WHAT NEXT? This CD was
a retail purchase. Any suggestions? Thnx,
-----Original Message-----
Yes that's it.

DDS
Would that be the area, after entering prod key, that has
3 options: accessibility,advanced,[something else i dont
remember] -- under Advanced: W2000 files location [E:\],
system installation folder [\WINNT]. Should I change this
to "D:\WINNT"? Thanks in advance!
-----Original Message-----
Boot into Win 98 and start Win 2k setup from there. If
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I
remember correctly,
there is an "advanced" setting in the first stages of
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Win
2k setup where you
can have Win 2k installed to your D drive.

A boot menu will be set up, where you can choose which
Click to expand...
OS
you want to boot
into, automatically.


hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE

"bronxxbabe" <[email protected]>
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Installed new hard drive on secondary IDE (designated D:)
and CDROM is E: Old h/d is C:,of course. Want to install
2000SP2 on new h/d. Would it be easier to make new drive
the boot drive b4 installing or is there a safe way of
doing it thru old drive (98SE)? Please help!


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entered prod key, made D:\WINNT change, had to restart.
Upon restart, given option: Please Select Operating
System To Start: 1. Microsift Windows 2000 Professional
Setup or 2. Microsoft Windows. I chose #1. Then msg
appears: The Operating System CD that you are attempting
to install was not distributed with this computer. Setup
cannot continue. CTRL-ALT-DEL only takes me back to same
msg and to get out, i must select #2 -- unless I F8 and go
into W2000 Advanced Options Menu. WHAT NEXT? This CD was
a retail purchase. Any suggestions? Thnx,
-----Original Message-----
Yes that's it.

DDS
Would that be the area, after entering prod key, that has
3 options: accessibility,advanced,[something else i dont
remember] -- under Advanced: W2000 files location [E:\],
system installation folder [\WINNT]. Should I change this
to "D:\WINNT"? Thanks in advance!
-----Original Message-----
Boot into Win 98 and start Win 2k setup from there. If
Click to expand...
I
remember correctly,
there is an "advanced" setting in the first stages of
Click to expand...
Win
2k setup where you
can have Win 2k installed to your D drive.

A boot menu will be set up, where you can choose which
Click to expand...
OS
you want to boot
into, automatically.


hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE

"bronxxbabe" <[email protected]>
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in message
Installed new hard drive on secondary IDE (designated D:)
and CDROM is E: Old h/d is C:,of course. Want to install
2000SP2 on new h/d. Would it be easier to make new drive
the boot drive b4 installing or is there a safe way of
doing it thru old drive (98SE)? Please help!


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Never seen that.

Not sure about the workaround.

DDS
bronxxbabe said:
entered prod key, made D:\WINNT change, had to restart.
Upon restart, given option: Please Select Operating
System To Start: 1. Microsift Windows 2000 Professional
Setup or 2. Microsoft Windows. I chose #1. Then msg
appears: The Operating System CD that you are attempting
to install was not distributed with this computer. Setup
cannot continue. CTRL-ALT-DEL only takes me back to same
msg and to get out, i must select #2 -- unless I F8 and go
into W2000 Advanced Options Menu. WHAT NEXT? This CD was
a retail purchase. Any suggestions? Thnx,
-----Original Message-----
Yes that's it.

DDS
Would that be the area, after entering prod key, that has
3 options: accessibility,advanced,[something else i dont
remember] -- under Advanced: W2000 files location [E:\],
system installation folder [\WINNT]. Should I change this
to "D:\WINNT"? Thanks in advance!
-----Original Message-----
Boot into Win 98 and start Win 2k setup from there. If I
remember correctly,
there is an "advanced" setting in the first stages of Win
2k setup where you
can have Win 2k installed to your D drive.

A boot menu will be set up, where you can choose which OS
you want to boot
into, automatically.


hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE

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Installed new hard drive on secondary IDE (designated
D:)
and CDROM is E: Old h/d is C:,of course. Want to
install
2000SP2 on new h/d. Would it be easier to make new
drive
the boot drive b4 installing or is there a safe way of
doing it thru old drive (98SE)? Please help!


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