New Install

Hi, I would like to know, how best to install Windows 2000 Pro onto a new HD old HP Pavillion 6621. It has a 15 Gig HD with 64 MB of Ram ( this is not my PC ) and I am trying to help to make some improvements on it. So I suggested 80 Gig HD 128 or 256 mb of Ram and Win. 2000 Pro as this I think will run better on 128 mb of Ram than XP Pro. Can you boot the 2000Pro CD like the XP or do you need to use some boot Floppy. I had a look in the BIOS and I can set the BIOS to boot from CD, but I don't know if 2000 will or not. Is Win 2000 happy to run on 128??
The mobo is a "Tri Gem Cognac" common I believe for old HP PC's
any help would be appreciated
hawk22

 

And I thank you very much Steve
hawk22

 

One other thing I have just noticed. I was hoping to leave the old 15 Gig drive in the PC as a slave drive install 2000 on the new 80 Gig.
To my surprice the Powersupply is only rated at 100 Watts contnuous power, is this sufficient for the 2 HD's , Floppy , CD Rom.
thanks
hawk22

 

Don't know how far you've gotten with the new hardware, but the HP sounds like the one I had about3 years ago. When I upgraded the HD to 80 gig, the bios couldn't handle it and I had to have it upgraded ($40). Not sure how you can find this out before you purchase the new HD. Maybe Steve knows.

 

Hi and thanks, I have installed the 80Gig drive and it seems to work ok I have 2 Partitions on it. Windows 2000 did not seem to have installed properly, there where 3 or 4 Files installation was looking for but could not find and it said
"Windows 2000 might not work properly if these files are not installed.
So I am not sure if I should try a repair install or just Format and Install new again.
On a different matter that HP Case is that small connections are there for a second drive but only 100 Watt Power and just no room for a second drive to install, what would be my best solution to transfer all the files from the old 15 gig drive to the new 80 gig. My original plan was to run the old 15 gig as a slave.
I installed a 128 stick of memory along with the 64mb that was originally in the Box 2000 seems to work ok with that.
Any advice is greatly appreciated
hawk22