Help Windows 2000 Problem!!!!!!!!!!!!

[IFReeman]

I have just recieved a copy of windows 2000 pro, so I upgraded win98 just to check that it would work properly on my computer before formatting and doing a completely clean install. I upgraded and it worked fine, just needed to get a few updated drivers.

The problem came when I tried to format I have used the format within win2000 on the command prompt that didnt work it said the drive was in use. I have tried using a boot disk to force the computer into dos, when I got into dos the c:\ drive is not recognised, this is because it is ntfs file system, which does not support dos or fat or fat32. So therefore in the dos prompt I cant use format c:\ as the c:\ drive is not recognised. Fdisk wont work either for the same reason. I have also tried using the windows98 cd to get me to a command prompt but again the c:\ drive is not recognised beacause of this ntfs file system not liking dos.

So has anyone out there got any bright ideas as to how I can get win2000 of so I can do a clean install.

Any suggestions would be gratefully recieved.

P.S is there any software that I can use to help me, like partition magic etc.

Iain.

[emcron]

When I but with nt 4.0 cd setup starts up and gives me the option to format. If you have nt 4.0 you could try that.

[skywalker[TSG]]

Fdisk should work

just remove the NON msdos partitions they should be the NTFS drive

[jbyron]

If you can boot with cd-rom suport.
put the win 2000 disk in change to the bootdisk dir on the cd and run makeboot.exe
to make a boot disk. Then you can fdisk and format from there.