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by jbeaucaire

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i have a win2000 Pro operating system, w/Office2000 Pro. I lost outlook (got crupted), i tried to reinstall it and got an error message stating an error has occcured & to contact MS Support. I tried to uninstall office then reinstalling WIN2000. The uninstall went okay but now I can get WIN2000 to fully install. I want to reformat my C: drive, but need to create a boot floppy. How do I do this or is there another way to either get Win2k installed properly of to format the drive & start allover again?

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by slim_jim_tx

Yes there is...Put your Windows 2000 CD in your CD drive and get into your BIOS to make sure the CD rom is slected as your first boot option. Then crank up your computer with the Windows 2000 CD in the CD-ROM... you will be prompted to "hit any keyto boot from the CD" and this is what you want to do. Then you may format the hard drive and start the setup.

Good luck.

by stormsmj

...Or, in case your PC doesn't support booting from CDRom...
Go to a Win 98 PC, go to Control Panel ==> Add Remove Programs, Click tab for startup disk. Create the disk and boot off it, which will assign a drive letter to your CD Rom. Then run setup from the Win 2000 CD.

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