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Booting from CD bypasses the hard drive's O.S.
Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 9:29 am
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Posted by DNA (551 messages posted)

The Windows 2000 log-in screen will not appear when you are booting from a CD! Booting from a CD bypasses the hard drive [and its operating system(s)] and loads the operating system that is on the (bootable) CD.

Put the burned Boot and Nuke CD in the drive when the laptop is powered up (you don't need to be logged in to put a CD in the drive, just powered up), then restart and quickly press the "F12" key when the [Press "F1" and "F12" key prompts] is shown on the first screen you see when the laptop powers up.

Athlon 1.1 - 768 MB RAM = 98SE & XP Home

Athlon 3000+ 64 - 1024 MB RAM = 98SE (@768 MB RAM) & XP Pro

IBM ThinkPad PIII 900 - 384 MB RAM = 98SE & XP Pro SP2

Windows 2000 Server in the basement

Written in response to:
re: Darik's Boot And Nuke CD (Jeff: Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 8:16 am)

Responses to this message:
Followup: How will you install 98? (DNA: Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 12:26 pm)

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Formatting a Win2K Dell laptop (Jeff: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 4:38 am)

Darik's Boot And Nuke CD (DNA: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 7:36 am)

re: Darik's Boot And Nuke CD (Jeff: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 8:16 am)

Booting from CD bypasses the hard drive's O.S. (DNA: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 9:29 am)

Followup: How will you install 98? (DNA: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 12:26 pm)

One argument for Win2K (DNA: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 12:39 pm)

re: Formatting a Win2K Dell laptop (DEX: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 1:23 pm)

The Dell has no floppy, but... (DNA: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 6:34 pm)

re: The Dell has no floppy, but... (DEX: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 8:14 pm)

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