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you can go into the bios and make your CD the startup device, then, put your win 2000 CD in the tray, and boot from it.. it will boot automaticly on the win2000 installation program. It will then ask you if you want to erase/create your partition. you can erase it, recreate it, and format it after, all directly on the windows 2000 installation cd.
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you can go into the bios and make your CD the startup device, then, put your win 2000 CD in the tray, and boot from it.. it will boot automaticly on the win2000 installation program. It will then ask you if you want to erase/create your partition. you can erase it, recreate it, and format it after, all directly on the windows 2000 installation cd.

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I know this is a rookie question but how do you resart a computer into ms dos from wondows 2000 so i can reformat the hard drive?
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I know this is a rookie question but how do you resart a computer into ms dos from wondows 2000 so i can reformat the hard drive?

Restarting in MS Dos

Windows 2000 is an operating system for use on both client and server computers. It is the successor to Windows NT 4.0, and is the last version of Microsoft Windows to display the "Windows NT" designation. Four editions of Windows 2000 were released (Professional, Server, Advanced Server, and Datacenter Server) that shared a core set of features, including many system utilities such as the Microsoft Management Console. All versions of the operating system support NTFS 3.0, Encrypting File System, as well as basic and dynamic disk storage. The Windows 2000 Server family includes support for Active Directory services, Distributed File System and fault-redundant storage volumes.