Installing Windows 2000 Professional

[Wayne Boody]

I bought a computer system with Windows 2000 Professional
installed. I have to C: drives (40 GB each) which I can
interchange. I have had trouble with this system from the
first day. After I kept taking it back to the PC Shop,
the PC Shop went out of business (about 6 months after I
bought the system). Since then I have tried everything
without any success. I bought another hard drive that was
larger (80 GB)and proceeded to install Windows 2000
Professional and it was then that I found out that I did
not have the COA (Certificate of Authentity)number, even
though I had the original disk. My question is, do I have
to buy another copy of Windows 2000 Professional in order
to install the on the new disk? and, What happens to my
system if it crashes and I have to re-install Windows 2000
Professional? I have made backups of both drives (and
including the additional drive installed). One other
question, I tried to follow the instructions to make a
system floppy disk without success, I also used the Run
Program function and it will only copy files but it is not
a bootable drive. How do you format a floppy disk to make
it a bootable disk?

 

[DL]

A legitimate win2k disk should iether have its code # on an orange sticker
on the cd case or in its book, with the note ' Important do not lose this
number'
If you have niether you may well have a pirate copy.
To make the boot disk follow info in win/help, the process uses 4 floppies,
allthough the win cd is bootable

 

[Mercury]

It sounds like a bootleg copy, which some shops that build their own use to
save money(for them, not you!). If you need an installation number, you will
probably have to buy Win2000 again.