> Bob, thanks a lot! Your guess was absolutely correct. I had a fat16 > partition at hda3 prior to installing w2k in a brand-new NTFS > partition at hda1. It did install its installer into hda3 for > whatever reason (without prompting). Pointing other to hda3 resolved
Not sure, but I remeber trying to install nt4 to a prepartitioned (under linux) disk and specifying it to be installed to a certain unformated partition or unpartitioned space, it would install the majority of it's file to the pointed partition. However, the _boot_ files (e.g ntldr, boot.ini?,...) was unconditionally put on the fat partition it could find. Not telling, but hey, it's MS ;-) I'm pretty sure the installations procedure first formats the partition fat, and shortly later (after a MS reboot ofcourse) it says "converting to NTFS..." Probably the same or similar goes with w2k, even thoug it got a fancier look... // Emil
