Installing 2000 Pro over itself in a multi-OS computer

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Hi guys, sorry it took me two weeks to get back to y'all, but I owed y'all the courtesy of a reply. Truthfully, I never had to wrestle with a DOS-based system (Mistake Edition excepted) more than I had to do so with this NT-based one. I eliminated the HDD as a problem since every other OS (including the Linux Red Hat distro) on it worked fine. I then tried to do a repair from the 2000 disc, no joy. The disc didn't detect the OS, but saw 46MB of something...popcorn, maybe. The emergency 4-disc repair floppy set I had collecting dust wouldn't load, either. I created a new set, they did nothing either. Went to another OS and looked this up in Computer\System\C: and the OS couldn't be opened. I finally got into the file system through the Administrator account, moved the few things I wanted to save to a flash drive, had yet another highball and am now reinstalling 2000 clean.

All this to try and recover a customer's install! I'm afraid to ask the old geezer why he sticks with it, but I know he's got a number of other boxes networked to it. Thank God he's in no hurry. I dunno whether the OS in question is Win2K Server, but for its age and his needs it's a nice OS. I retired, more or less, 12 years ago but still do favors for friends. Besides, I got a charge of playing with floppies again. Warren even has two boxes with ZIP drives, and my old work box can handle those too. I just wonder what the heck he's using for an AV - then again, the OS is so old hackers may not even bother with it now.

I think a dinner for four at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse will be a proper fee.