To answer your "install from pen drive" question Monday, December 31, 2007 at 8:39 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by DNA (552 messages posted) My neighbor happens to be off today, as am I (New Year's Eve), so I borrowed his Dell Latitude C600 with Win2KPro (a year ago, yours truly installed an 80 GB HD, and did a fresh install of 2K, using Dell's drivers from the website that are more up-to-date than the drivers on his recovery CD!) You can hit "F12" during the first stage of startup to access the boot menu. The boot menu's entries show "Internal HDD", "CD/DVD/CD-RW Drive" (he has a 'combo' drive), "Cardbus NIC", and "Mini-PCI NIC". This is likely a representative boot menu for your Dell. If the USB drive is not accessible at the BIOS level, as is the case here (and not accessible from your Setup floppy disk), you can't use the files on the 'pen drive' to install an operating system. PS: The network (NIC) boot options imply that if you can boot to a network that has your Win2K Setup.exe and i386 folder accessible, you could install Windows from the network, as "Sysadmins" (IT System Administrators) typically do! -------------------------------------------------------------- Athlon 3000+ 939 - 1GB RAM = 98SE (@768 MB RAM) & XP Pro SP2 Athlon 4000+X2 AM2 - 3GB RAM = 2000 SP4 & XP Pro SP2 IBM ThinkPad PIII 933 - 512 MB RAM = 98SE & XP Pro SP2 Windows 2000 Server in the basement Written in response to: Re-install w/o CD, have USB pen and setup/boot floppies (Peter Van Aken: Sunday, December 30, 2007 at 3:25 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Re-install w/o CD, have USB pen and setup/boot floppies (Peter Van Aken: Sun, Dec 30, 2007, 3:25 pm) re: Re-install w/o CD, have USB pen and setup/boot floppies (Jim O'Calaghan: Sun, Dec 30, 2007, 5:08 pm) Who needs an onboard CD drive on a laptop? (DNA: Sun, Dec 30, 2007, 10:54 pm) re: Re-install w/o CD, have USB pen and setup/boot floppies (DEX: Sun, Dec 30, 2007, 7:53 pm) re: Re-install w/o CD, have USB pen and setup/boot floppies (Jerry: Sun, Dec 30, 2007, 8:12 pm) Another way to do this (DNA: Sun, Dec 30, 2007, 9:15 pm) re: Another way to do this (DEX: Mon, Dec 31, 2007, 3:23 am) Sorry, DEX, I'll clarify.... (DNA: Mon, Dec 31, 2007, 7:47 am) re: Sorry, DEX, I'll clarify.... (DEX: Mon, Dec 31, 2007, 9:50 am) To answer your "install from pen drive" question (DNA: Mon, Dec 31, 2007, 8:39 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum