clean install / formatting hard drive

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From: Andy (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/02/04 

Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 23:39:33 -0700

Win2K does not recognise HD greater than about 130G unless
it is sp2 or above.

You can use a win98 boot disk to delete and repartition
before the fresh install. If your HD needs special
controller, you will need to F6 early and insert the
driver floppy.

Hope this info is useful.

>-----Original Message-----
>due to problems with viruses i need to do a clean install
>of Windows 2000 SP4, i chose the option to do a clean
>install when i inserted my win2k cd and the pc restarted
>and when it rebooted i chose the option "Windows 2000
>Professional Setup" and everything seemed to be going
fine
>until it said "Setup is now starting Windows 2000" (or
>words to that effect) and then presented me with a
>bluescreen with an error message
>containing "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_SECTOR", so i then tried
>again booting from startup disks, but i got an error
about
>the setup not being able to find my hard disk (200gb IDE
>non-RAID).
>when that failed i tried to use the recovery console but
>got the same INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_SECTOR error, so now when
i
>boot my pc i have a choice of 3 OS to boot into, Win2k
>Pro, Win2k Pro Setup and Win2k Recovery Console, none of
>which are any good to me, so i was wondering if there is
>anyway of me booting my pc with some kind of command
>prompt so that i can completely format my harddrive and
>start from scratch again?
>thanks in advance for any help,
>
>-Craig
>.
>

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