I have been working on a laptop for a friend and ended up replacing the hard drive. So, no I am in the process of trying to load Windows 2000. I have had a nearly identical situation as described in this V Dr article posted by me. There are a couple of differences. I cannot find my Windows 3.1 or Dos diskettes. Since I have no OS loaded the config.sys and autoexec.bat edits won't work. Secondly, I want to do a clean install of W2K. I have the W2K boot disks. Problem is, working with a laptop is a different animal than working with a desktop. The computer in question is also a Dell Latitude CPi, as in my post referred to above, so I have one modular drive bay and can only use either the modular floppy or CD-Rom, but not both at once. I'm not too crazy about it, but I will have to hot swap those drives as needed, as there is no other way to do it. I will just have to do a lot of finger crossing. There are no known problems with new drive or the computer itself. Granted the system only has 64MB of RAM which is borderline adequate for W2K which will have to do for now. A drive diagnostics utility gave the drive a clean bill of health. Boot order in the BIOS is set to [diskette] [internal HDD] [CD DVD CD-RW] in that order. How can I get a clean install of W2K using the NTFS file system. Thanks in advance for all help.