Format W2000?...

[cosmicB]

I can't format this old garage sale tower..?

36-gig hd, with its buggy copy of W2000... I want to erase the hd, and install my own Windows 2K CD, but the old system doesn't recognize my new CD as the right one... How do you clean out a stubborn W2K?..

[boingo]

I'd hook up the old hard drive as a slave to a computer that is running and format it through there first, but make absolutely certain to choose the correct hard drive!

[PlasticAnnArbor]

even though it is a Linux bootable cd .Download and burn the .iso to cd ( Making sure it is bootable)
SystemRescueCd
http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
put it in the drive and reboot the machine
on it is a program called gparted .use that to reformat it to ntfs .Then install w2k
if you need help in burning an iso post back or google " burn bootable dvd "

[cosmicB]

I'm trying to create a bootable R/W CD image of W2000, before I trash this OS... I'm running Nero-6... My first try I got a CD that brings a popup "D is not accessible"... Oh Shitt! This brings me back to the first time I had to format a hd...

OK! Attempt number two... Ummm?.. put a CD into the slot... Bring up Nero... Umm.. Go in to Nero help files... Umm.. Go make a coffee... Go outside, and play with the cat... Ask the cat if it knows anything about creating a bootable CD...

[PlasticAnnArbor]

this may help i don't use nero so i can only offer google hits
http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=297
or
http://www.smart-projects.net/help.php?help=295

[cosmicB]

That's a BIG help!.. THANKS!..

Right now I'm working on removing all the crap from this OS... It started out with a 20-gig hd with 9.7 gigs on it... I've got it down to 5.4 gigs.. but a DVD holds only 4.7 gigs... 7 gigs more to delete..? That's a lot of megabytes to rip out... Me thinks if I removes anymore the OS is gonna just fall apart.. but I'm still trying to find stuff it doesn't need... This is the first time I ever really got into W2k with like a "killer vengeance"...

I've got 3 uninstallers going, and RegScrub, CM DiskCleaner, EasyCleaner, Spybot, Symantec AVS, CCleaner, Windows Explorer, and Defrag...
I wish I knew what can and can't be removed from W2k... So far I've been lucky.. this OS is still undamaged from all this uninstalling and deleting... Well.. almost.. Somehow I lost the ability to set my bookmarks in SeaMonkey's tab-bar... Other than that everything is running good, and reasonably fast...

As soon as I've got it down to 5 gigs I'm gonna try your tips links to make a bootable CD...

[jinjin]

Have you examined Windows 2000 Lite? It is free for personal use.

[cosmicB]

I'm looking at it... Seems you need to already have W2K installed for it to even start to download...

I suspect it's a W2000 killer.. as in should its security tracer program find anything not commercially viable, you would end up with a formated hd...
Plus it looks like it's essentially a stripped down version of W2K, which you must pay another fifty bucks to get, on top of what you paid for the original W2K CD... I'm guessing that someone bought W2K from Microsoft, and has made a new business of it... Thanks for the tip, but me thinks I should focus on making a bootable DVD of what's on the hd... This way I don't let in anymore state of the art intruders into my PC...

I tried to download W2K lite onto a CD, but it has a built-in block to that... It left a lot of executables in the hd, that CM DiskCleaner, and uninstallers, and registry cleaners cleaned out, before I rebooted... I suspect that initial download would have destroyed this OS... WLite is "free", but they hold-back everything needed to make it a PC... As soon as I can find the time I'll be trying Linux...

[PlasticAnnArbor]

[quote]As soon as I can find the time I'll be trying Linux...[/code]
if you can buy a new computer get one with linux ( mostlikely Ubuntu) preinstalled .
I run fedora but i do not recommend it for new linux users .
Dell sells some with Ubuntu installed

[monosodium]

Lol @ Cosmic using ubuntu...

Cosmic has trouble keeping a grasp on reality, don't torture the poor fool by inviting them into the world of... on second thoughts, there are plenty of deluded fools in the linux world, cosmic will fit right in.


(Linux is rubbish - go proper UNIX!)


Cosmic - get a disk imaging application as they usually compress the contents to save space and would probably fit on a dvd after compression...

[cosmicB]

MS, I didn't expect you to drag your poop into this pleasant thread... You always come across at me like a backed-up toilet overflowing all over the floor... Don't you think it's time you changed your MO..?

I'll be trying Linux, and W2K in the same hd...

[DanMc]

I use Linux 95% of the time. It can drive you mad sometimes, but look at the number of people having Windows problems. They've paid good money for the bloody thing, but they still can't get it to work properly or keep the malware goons away from it.

I've not had much experience with actual Unix although I would quite like to, but I did use a commercial clone, Idris (Whitesmiths), some years ago and it was very stable.

[cosmicB]

look at the number of people having Windows problems. They've paid good money for the bloody thing, but they still can't get it to work properly or keep the malware goons away from it.

Let's take a little look-see at "the malware goons".. essentially their reasons to be such assholes.. and what they actually get out of wrecking an innocent's PC...

The ones who offer Internet business propositions, and damage your computer with malware.. it's like you walking into a retail store, with a pocket full of dollars to spend there, and the store clerk spits in your face as he stomps his heal down hard on our toes... He won't get any of your Paypal is a forsure... Those Internet businesses who hurt the consumer are big time losers by their own hand... They hurt themselves.. and they make the Internet just a little more stinky.. till one day they have forced the culture to create and implement an Internet police force and legal system.. and all of us, including the internet assholes, to pay per email to pay for the policing, courting, and incarcerations of them ape-class humans...

What does a hacker-kid gain by destroying someone's PC's OS, when there's no way of proving anything actually did get wrecked in his victim's PC..? I suppose they jump up and down fantasizing that their bullying actually did something.. and they celebrate their destructive success that didn't occur.. like believing in a silly daydream, and living its end that didn't happen, ten responding to what isn't, parallel to believing in a god.. only their god is now their evil ways... Sounds like they are quite a bit insane... Maybe it's the lead in the water pipes, or the bugs in the pablum..?

[PlasticAnnArbor]

most of the time it is not one ( 1 ) piece of malware , sometimes it is , but 2,3,4,5...20 "bad" programs .All trying to use the same computer .
the "best viruses / spyware" will not give the user any reason to think there box is infected . The computer will only show a small bit of extra cpu and http/ftp use .
the badly written ones ( most) will FUBAR the system .
and some now come with there OWN anti-virus to remove the competition ,so only the one virus remains .

there is BIG cash$$$$$ in bot networks

What does a hacker-kid gain by destroying someone's PC's OS,

think again ,it is not just script-kiddies anymore but organized crime( think " Russian business network")

script-kiddies do it because they are 11 to 15 years old
but running a 250,000 zombie bot net is for CASH

[cosmicB]

How can anyone make $ bugging my computer?..