> 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.

Sounds like maybe the 2000 CD is not a bootable one.  XP should not be able
to override the bios boot sequence.  Go to win98se machine and create a
bootable diskette.  Make sure fdisk is on it.  Try switching the drive
cables to make the hard disk on the slave controller.  Put the cd drive on
the primary controller.  You should be able to boot from the cd or floppy.
If not, get another bootable hard drive and put it as the primary/master.
Boot into dos mode <F8 key> You should be able to run fdisk and delete the
xp partition.

hope this helps

michael

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