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Thread ID: 25150	2002-09-27 07:22:00	will this work?	bjocque (1064)	Press F1

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83697	2002-09-27 07:22:00	my new laptop runs xp home and has no a:\ drive - i want to "downgrade???" to windows 2000 (mainly compatibility issues) - would this work? 1. burn new cd of win98se boot disk on home pc 2. make laptop cd bootable 3. command prompt on laptop "format c: -S" or is it f???? 4. put in boot cd and start laptop again 5. replace cd with win2k cd and install sounds ok to me, any ideas comments???? help!!!!!!	bjocque (1064)
83698	2002-09-27 07:26:00	Isnt your Win2k CD bootable?	godfather (25)
83699	2002-09-27 08:28:00	you should also look at your video driver in winxp and download one for w2k from your laptops manufacturers website - same for network card if present	Marty2001 (421)
83700	2002-09-27 22:36:00	Why not just boot from your Win2K CD and format from the Win2K installation? Or Boot from your XP CD, hit "R" to enter Recovery mode (I think that's what it's called), type in your password, and format c: from there, then install Win2K from there (I have no idea if that method will work - I'm guessing probably not :)) Mike.	Mike (15)
83701	2002-09-28 00:19:00	Firstly, Make sure you write down exactly what the drivers for each are. Make, Model, Anything about the hardware that shows up in the device manager. Sound, Network, Modem, CD-Writer, Display are the main ones. If you've got a Win2K disc, once you're ready, simply put in the disc and restart, it'll come up with Press any key to boot from CD.. And slowly the dots will increase, just hit enter. I take it you're not gonna need 3rd party scsi or raid drivers, so when it's done its thing, tell it you're gonna format the partition by pressing d. press enter to confirm and then L to delete it. Press enter and it'll ask you what you want to format the unpartitioned space with, Fat32 or NTFS. If youre gonna use DOS mode for some wierd reason, go with FAT32, but otherwise, your best bet is NTFS. It'll format and do everything from there, apart from restoring backups of your progs (You can do that.... :)) and make sure you keep your driver disc, just in case.. Cheers Chilling_Silence	Chilling_Silence (9)
83702	2002-09-30 00:22:00	If you really want to make a Windows Starup disk boot from CD you can use Easy CD Creator( Deluxe Version only, I think). 1.Prepare a bootable floppy disk with the necessary files on it, such as: 2.Start Easy CD Creator Deluxe. 3.On the CD Layout properties, select the Data Settings Tab. 4.Click on the Bootable box and make sure the File system is set to ISO9660. (anything else is not possible, btw.) 5. Click on OK when you're done. The system will ask you to put the bootable floppy (= image) into the floppydrive A. As shown below. 6. Once you've clicked on OK, Easy CD Creator (ECDC) will read the floppy and automatically creates an image. This image needs no patching.. 7. Now you can Drag-and-Drop the files you want to have, into the file list by using the built-in explorer or with the standard Windows Explorer. 8. Change also the label of the disk, if you want. 9. The last step is to Record the disk and you're ready.	crozier (2004)
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