Re: Can't install Win 2000 on my computer

thanks for that

I put the 80 gig in on it's own, no partitions etc and Windows 2000 installed like a dream. So I reconnected the normal ide drive (the XP Partition had already been formatted).

Then I copied Win2k from the 80 gig to the normal ide drive and disconnected the 80 gig. Straight away the troubles started, on bootup the OS scan disk said there where errors and started to run, wiping out partitions and everything in them.

When it finally finished, not only had it wiped out 2 partitions but it still wasn't seeing the full hard drive

Dave Patrick wrote:
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