Yes I did, by eliminating all other boot possibilities, then it formatted
the partition...yawnn

Thanks again to all...
Martin

At 09:58 PM 2/27/02 -0600, you wrote:
>On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Martin Baker wrote:
>
> > I got it to go.... but do you have any idea how long it takes to format an
> > eighty gig hard drive....I got lunch, ran some errands, piked up some
> > groceries, etc....
> > Thanks again to everyone!!!...
>
>Well ... sounds like it may be too late already, but ... if you can boot
>from the CD, you don't have to format the new partition.  In fact, you
>don't even need to create a partition from DOS/98.
>
>Did you ever get it to boot from the Win2k CD?
>
>-- Mitch
>
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