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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