Installing Windows 2000 Professional without a floppy drive.

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I'm attempting to install windows 2000 Profressional, however as soon as the
initial setup starts, it asks for Setup Disk 1 to be inserted into A: drive,
I dont have a floppy drive on the PC. How do I go about getting Windows 2000
to install without a floppy drive?
 
As long as you don't need to supply third party drivers you won't need one.

To do a clean install, either boot the Windows 2000 install CD-Rom or setup
disks. The set of four install disks can be created from your Windows 2000
CD-Rom; change to the \bootdisk directory on the CD-Rom and execute
makeboot.exe (from dos) or makebt32.exe (from 32 bit) and follow the
prompts.

(Note: If your drive controller is not natively supported then you'll want
to boot the Windows 2000 install CD-Rom. Then *F6* very early and very
important (at setup is inspecting your system) in the setup to prevent drive
controller detection, and select S to specify additional drivers. Then later
you'll be prompted to insert the manufacturer supplied Windows 2000 driver
for your drive controller in drive "A")

Setup inspects your computer's hardware configuration and then begins to
install the Setup and driver files. When the Windows 2000 Professional
screen appears, press ENTER to set up Windows 2000 Professional.

Read the license agreement, and then press the F8 key to accept the terms of
the license agreement and continue the installation.

When the Windows 2000 Professional Setup screen appears, all the existing
partitions and the unpartitioned spaces are listed for each physical hard
disk. Use the ARROW keys to select the partitions Press D to delete an
existing partition, If you press D to delete an existing partition, you must
then press L (or press ENTER, and then press L if it is the System
partition) to confirm that you want to delete the partition. Repeat this
step for each of the existing partitions When all the partitions are deleted
press F3 to exit setup, (to avoid unexpected drive letter assignments with
your new install) then restart the pc then when you get to this point in
setup again select the unpartitioned space, and then press C to create a new
partition and specify the size (if required). Windows will by default use
all available space.

Be sure to apply SP4 and these two below to your new install before
connecting to any network. Internet included. (sasser, msblast)
http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/6/A/E6A04295-D2A8-40D0-A0C5-241BFECD095E/W2KSP4_EN.EXE
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-043.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-049.mspx

Then

Rollup 1 for Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...CF-8850-4531-B52B-BF28B324C662&displaylang=en




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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect
 
How am I going to make the bootdisks without a floppy drive? That was my
initial question.

Dave Patrick said:
As long as you don't need to supply third party drivers you won't need one.

To do a clean install, either boot the Windows 2000 install CD-Rom or setup
disks. The set of four install disks can be created from your Windows 2000
CD-Rom; change to the \bootdisk directory on the CD-Rom and execute
makeboot.exe (from dos) or makebt32.exe (from 32 bit) and follow the
prompts.

(Note: If your drive controller is not natively supported then you'll want
to boot the Windows 2000 install CD-Rom. Then *F6* very early and very
important (at setup is inspecting your system) in the setup to prevent drive
controller detection, and select S to specify additional drivers. Then later
you'll be prompted to insert the manufacturer supplied Windows 2000 driver
for your drive controller in drive "A")

Setup inspects your computer's hardware configuration and then begins to
install the Setup and driver files. When the Windows 2000 Professional
screen appears, press ENTER to set up Windows 2000 Professional.

Read the license agreement, and then press the F8 key to accept the terms of
the license agreement and continue the installation.

When the Windows 2000 Professional Setup screen appears, all the existing
partitions and the unpartitioned spaces are listed for each physical hard
disk. Use the ARROW keys to select the partitions Press D to delete an
existing partition, If you press D to delete an existing partition, you must
then press L (or press ENTER, and then press L if it is the System
partition) to confirm that you want to delete the partition. Repeat this
step for each of the existing partitions When all the partitions are deleted
press F3 to exit setup, (to avoid unexpected drive letter assignments with
your new install) then restart the pc then when you get to this point in
setup again select the unpartitioned space, and then press C to create a new
partition and specify the size (if required). Windows will by default use
all available space.

Be sure to apply SP4 and these two below to your new install before
connecting to any network. Internet included. (sasser, msblast)
http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/6/A/E6A04295-D2A8-40D0-A0C5-241BFECD095E/W2KSP4_EN.EXE
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-043.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-049.mspx

Then

Rollup 1 for Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...CF-8850-4531-B52B-BF28B324C662&displaylang=en




--

Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

addai said:
I'm attempting to install windows 2000 Profressional, however as soon as
the
initial setup starts, it asks for Setup Disk 1 to be inserted into A:
drive,
I dont have a floppy drive on the PC. How do I go about getting Windows
2000
to install without a floppy drive?
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addai said:
How am I going to make the bootdisks without a floppy drive? That was my
initial question.
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You do *NOT* need a bootable floppy.

Just set the bios to boot first from cd-rom and you just insert your win2k
cd and boot from that.

NO floppy is needed unless you need to install 3rd party drivers
 
addai said:
When I do that, the setup asks for the Setup Bootdisks to be entered into
drive a:.
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The only time you need a floppy is to install 3rd party drivers...
at the point where it asks for a floppy (and to hit F6)...just ignore that.

it is NOT looking for a boot floppy...just 3rd party drivers which generally
are not needed
 
After it searches for the RAID drivers and such, it DOES ask for a boot disk
to be entered into the A: drive. It says enter the setup disk in drive a:,
or f3 to quit. Thats where I'm stuck at.
 
addai said:
After it searches for the RAID drivers and such, it DOES ask for a boot disk
to be entered into the A: drive. It says enter the setup disk in drive a:,
or f3 to quit. Thats where I'm stuck at.
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Something is seriously wrong.
I've installed Win2k 100 times or more from a bootable CD and there has
*never* been a prompt to put in a setup floppy.

It looks like you may have a custom or slipstreamed Win2k cd with the need
for a customized setup floppy.
 
This is not a boot or setup disk. You must use a floppy drive in order to
install third party drivers or look at doing an unattended installation.


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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect
 
Guest stuck at the point that when the start from the CD has been selected from the BIOS and the machine starts and reads all the drivers then there is the message option that should write "press any key to start from the (damn) CD" and in windows 2000 that seems to be missing (wondering why), that doesn't happen for example in windows XP, windows 7 or whatever windows

then the installation CD should somehow be altered to the AUTOEXEC.BAT to include a line such as MSCDEX /D: oemcd001 /L: D
 
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