yes i did, that was part of the setup... although the hard
disk is partioned, so only C drive is ntfs while D drive
is still fat32

now what?
thanks

-----Original Message-----
Did you convert to NTFS ? If not just boot using a
startup floppy and
copy your data to another disk or drive.

HTH
MP

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hi rick

Sorry i made a mistake about what happens. Actually it
boots from hard disk and does the loop as mentioned
previously. But after changing the boot order to start
up
from the win 2000 CD it goes to setup with option of
clean
install of 2000 or repair of previous installation. I
tried repairing it which did nothing at all.
no I havent created an emergency boot disk ...whick isnt
really hard to do?? or is it?

Anyways my first priority is saving all my data if
possible, which is why im delaying the inevitable
formatting and clean install.

Thanks



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