At 09:58 AM 2/27/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>We just bought a little cheap PC for the Lab, and it came with XP. I need
>to blow XP off the drive and install W2K, for which we bought a shrink
>wrapped copy. I cannot get the system to wipe XP. The one time I want to
>format the drive, it won't let me. Icannot run setup from the CD, and when
>Ireset the Bios to boot from the CD or floppy, it still boots into XP.
>
>Has anyone else successfully dealt with this ?

Reset the bios so that the floppy drive is the first bootable device
and make sure that you save the changes on exit.

If that still doesn't work, open the case and remove the power
connector to the HD. Boot up on whatever. After it boots up, plug
the power connector into the HD (yes while the computer is still
on). Then wipe the hard drive.

Before doing any of this you might want to go through the device manager
and write down the types of network cards, soundcards, etc. just in case
win2k doesn't know what they are. It can really ruin your day when windows
says you have 5 unknown devices and you have no idea what they were to
begin with.

_____________________________________________________________
Cris Wilson
Information Resource Consultant
College of Architecture, Arts, and Humanities
Clemson University
cris@clemson.edu
To report problems email: aah_computers@clemson.edu

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