I'm wanting to do a full system restore of my wife's computer which has Windows 2000 Professional but when I run the first system restore disk, it says I must first delete non-dos partitions. I don't really understand what this means and how to do it and I have no other start-up disks. Can someone guide a not very technical guy?
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Jump to PostAs far as I know, windows 2000 does not have a system restore. Do you mean that you want to do a clean re- install of windows 2000?
Jump to PostRemember, when you do a re-install, you will loose all existing data on the computer. You want to back up first important stuff you do not want to loose.
See this handy how to:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304868
Follow those steps, and let us know how it …
Jump to PostIt seems that Microsoft does not support this anymore. But I found some sort of hope here.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/106419
I myself am not sure how all of that work, as I never used 2000 myself, but see if above link and debug script makes sense to …
Jump to PostDepending on the computer's manufacturer, the computer may have a "hidden" partition that may be necessary for a system restore to occur.
If fdisk doesn't tell you what the partition is, you could try booting off of a Linux install disk and accessing its partition management tool. You should …
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