Partitioning and formatting

[wrelax]

okay when you first build a comp you know how you should have a startup disk and all to prepare the harddrive for fdisk. Well how do you make a startup disk for win 2k pro or adv server? and is it even necessary to have a startup disk? can u just boot off cd by changing boot order in bios?

These questions have been lingering in my head for a while now. PLease clarify.

[Hpro]

Just boot of the CD - if you like to make a startup disk the this can be done from either within win98 or from a MS-DOS prompt it doesn't matter usnig the Win2K CDrom but I just forgot the command line - of it - may someone else know the command line for it ...I just found it

To create setup disks

Insert a blank, formatted, 3.5-inch, 1.44-MB disk into the floppy disk drive.
Insert the Windows 2000 CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive.
Click Start, and then click Run.
In the Open box, type d:\bootdisk\makeboot a: (where d: is the drive letter assigned to your CD-ROM drive), and then click OK.
Follow the screen prompts.
Important

You will need four blank, formatted, 3.5-inch, 1.44-MB floppy disks. Label them Setup Disk One, Setup Disk Two, Setup Disk Three, and Setup Disk Four.
Note

You can create the setup disks from a computer running any version of Windows or MS-DOS.