I had been working for a City in a remote location using my own computer and their software (win 2000). I recently began working for another City and want to use my computer for personal use now. I tried installing my own licensed copy of Win 2000 and everything went fine for a while. I had selected the first option of installing over and existing copy to maintain some of my personal programs. It came to the point where it said that it will now restart my machine. When it came up it ran to the point where it said it could not recognize the upgrade and to please contact the system administrator press F3 to quit. I did and the same thing happened. When I use F8 it gives me several choices, i.e. safe mode, etc. when I select one the machine restarts and it gives me the same message all over again. I can't seem to get out of this and I can't get to dos to do anything. All I want to do is install my copy of Win 2000. Any suggestions?

Try running the Windows 2000 set up program again and choose the Repair option when it asks you if you want to install a fresh copy or repair an existing installation.

please can you help I am a complete novice, I have tried to follow the procedure posted on 14/08/04 to reinstall win 2000. I succesfully get to the point were I am asked for the win 2000 disk and when I attempt to run this I am asked for the sp4 disk which I dont have!. I down loaded sp4 from the microsoft web site and let it take care of itself. how can I reload win 2000?

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