"disk D is not formatted. would you like to format it now?"

[Skanky Burns]

Oh Siro, did you try removing the cd drive completely from the windows hardware drivers list and then let windows install its own new drivers?

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by reds4ever
In the 'bad ole days' you were taking your life in your hands by not installing software to it's default directory (a habit that sticks with me).

Not for Windows. In the DOS days, I never had any need to reinstall the OS (?). Even if I had such a need, I wouldn't need to wipe the system and start from scratch.

So all the Windows machine I install will have Windows sitting in its own partition. So I can just format that drive if necessary. Now I realise that I still need to reinstall some other software, but not all.

Of course, I'd use Ghost for companies.

[Sirotnikov]

Oh Siro, did you try removing the cd drive completely from the windows hardware drivers list and then let windows install its own new drivers?

I fear that only the private toshiba drivers will be replaced, and not the windows files, which I suspect may be corrupted.

The only way to make a bootable windows 2000 diskette, is to use a utility found on the CD


I think it may very well be the case that the CD-ROM is gone. I'll get my dad to take it to work and see if it works there.


Thanks for all the help, you guys

[Ecthy]

no problem!

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


Not for Windows. In the DOS days, I never had any need to reinstall the OS (?). Even if I had such a need, I wouldn't need to wipe the system and start from scratch.

So all the Windows machine I install will have Windows sitting in its own partition. So I can just format that drive if necessary. Now I realise that I still need to reinstall some other software, but not all.

Yep, I was talking DOS, you had the option to change the default directory, run the app, and it would promptly look for its files in the default