thanks a lot rick

just read your post, was offline for a few days during
which i installed win 2000 on the d partition without
changing the file system, ie..win 2000 on fat32, seems
fine can see all my stuff on c drive and now whenever it
boots sees both win 2000 as separate OS's.
anyways now all i want to do is to remove the previous
incomplete win 200 installation and i will be fine

Thanks a lot for your advice
Ms

-----Original Message-----
ms wrote:

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

You've got a D: partition? that's great!!

All you have to do is find a booting floppy that can see
NTFS, copy your
personal stuff over to D:, then wipe C: clean
(reformat) and do a
clean install of Win2K (though you will need an original
Microsoft WinME
CD or Win98SE(?) to verify that you have a "previous
OS"... not a 3rd
party Recovery CD).

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

About halfway down the page there's a link for "NTFS
Bootdisk" (A Win9x
bootdisk with an NTFS reading utility on it) that seems
to be what you
need at this point.


Rick





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

"ms" wrote in

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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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