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we have got a new hard drive for our school and i want to do a clean install of win NT 4.0 ON it but i do not have the boot up disk for it as they have lost it is there a web site where i can get boot disks or can i use the sysprep utility on the win2k disk to boot up and run the installation of NT 4

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by alpha-male

Here you go:

http://www.bootdisk.com/

or:

To make the boot disks:

Making the boot disks is easy. You do not have to make them on the machine you are installing NT on, in fact, usually that is the case because the new machine does not have any OS on it.

From DOS:

All you need to be able to do is be able to go to the \i386 directory on the NT CD-ROM. The DOS can be just MS-DOS, or a dos box in Windows 3.x or 95.

c:\> d:

where d: is your CD-ROM drive letter (yours may be different).

d:\> cd\i386

puts you in the \i386 directory. Now run winnt /ox

d:\i386> winnt /ox

The setup starts, and asks you for the source directory, usually the one you are in so hit return. It then asks you for 3 formatted blank high-density 1.44 Mb disks. The first one you put in will be disk 3. Hit return. Setup writes and then checks each file to the boot disk. When done, it asks you for another disk, this will be disk 2, and then disk 1. The reason it works backwards is so that if you are installing NT on that machine, you can just reboot and it will boot off of disk one - already in the drive. Once the disks are made, label them and now you are ready to install NT!

Good Luck!

by gigelul

Also you can boot from WinNT CD if you have it.
Change in BIOS boot sequence to CDROM,x,y.

by rdunn

Here is a specific page that has the boot-disks that you need.

The above options are all just as good, too... I like to create a Ghost image (if you have an imaging util) of a hard drive with installation files of each OS that I work with - that way I can just 'ghost' the install files right to the drive and run setup from c:\ -

Good luck!

Rob

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