Rasken, very strange.. by the way this is what I used to do to install win2k from HDD: 1-wipe everything from the HDD with norton GDISK (or similar), including resetting mbr 2-create partitions (1 primary FAT, 1 logical FAT), make primary active 3-Copy installation files on 2nd partition 4-boot with win98 floppy (smartdrive enabled) 5-run winnt.exe from d:\sourcepath\i386 I used to ghost the HDD prior to stage 4 so to have a clean image of the HDD with all the installation files already on the 2nd partition, in case something went wrong PS: first step normally solved most of the issues I've had. Fdisk couldn't fix a problem I had with IBM OEM installations which rendered some of the HDD i had to reformat unusable hope this helps ciao