hey Lynchmob, I went to IBM.com and downloaded two files Diskmanager 2000 and dynamic drive overlay ,that were supposed to help with formatting difficulties, I used the bootable diskette created from diskmanager to format my hard drives , FAT 32 , 4 partitions of about 7.8M on each , I tried the the second diskette and program (Dynamic drive overlay) loaded in memory, it is used to run a diagnostic on the whole system, but it will not exit gracefully. After you use it, when you reset, you must hit keys very quickly to boot from CD. After doing this and finally getting win2000 to boot from CD, it sees but would would not accept the partitions created by the IBM diskmanager program, I went thru the process again using regular FAT, 14 or 15- 2 MB partitions, win 2000 setup still won't accept the partitions created by IBM's program. it looks like IBM's program doesn't work with WIN 2000. I am reaally discouraged, since it takes hours to try all this stuff out and maybe win2000 is just impractical to use because no-one has worked out these issues. I will ask a office mate tomorrow to help, he has win98 and I will try it with the fat32 or fat16 partitions.
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