The trouble is with this particular HD disc in the machine as master it will not boot from a win 98 boot disc, nor will the machine boot from the windows 98 CD, no matter what I tell it to do in bios, re going into dos,as I understand it win 2k was not a dos based system?
The win 2k disc works perfectly well as a slave with a win 98 as master,it was installed in the fat 32 format, but I do not think one can format a hard disc that is installed as slave, I may be wrong here ,but I seem to recal trying that once and the dammed machine started formating the C: master disc not the D: slave. even though I had typed "format D:"