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by wombat777

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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 nickmkhn

The best way for clean install is when you prepare (partition and format) your new harddrive on a working WinNT machine with the SP6 update.

Booting from the WinNT installation CD is also good for clean install. Just set Boot_from_CD sequence inthe BIOS.

If you don’t have this feature on your PC, then use a WinNT Setup floppies.
You don’t have to download any Setup disks, cause you have them.

They are on your WinNT installation CD under \i386 directory (or under \ALPHA or \MIPS or \PPC if you have a different from i86 PC system).

In order to create your Setup floppies just run %WinNT Install CD%\i386\WINNT.EXE from any DOS, Win3.x, or Win9x environment.

Or you can run %WinNT Install CD%\i386\WINNT32.EXE from any 32-bit Windows system.

Read all the articles on the Microsoft’s site related to the WinNT installation, and also about the size of system and boot partitions on NT for large hard disks. And don’t delay with Service Pack 6 installation.

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