Jon, thanks heaps, particularly for the autoexec and config.sys scripts. This afternoon I did in fact re-educate myself as to a reasonably simple process.

The key factor is a bootable DOS Setup Disc which I downloaded from (I think) bootdisk.com. A few months ago I downloaded at least a dozen boot discs in a variety of formats and completely confused myself.

My process in now simple enough:

- Boot with the DOS Setup Disc
- Run SCANDISK and FORMAT from the A: drive
- Re-boot and the dialogue tells me that a (temporary) R: drive has been created (MSCDEX has been installed with generic drivers).
- Change Directory to R: and run Win98 SETUP.EXE from CD. During the course of installation Windows changes the R: Directory to a more conventional name such as D:.

I did note that I couldn't instal Win 2000 from the R: prompt (in DOS), but I suspect that if I had booted with CD-ROM as default then it would have booted quite happily.

My rudimentary installation outline above is probably not fool-proof (particularly for non-Atapi cd drives), but I've never found a Web site that covers this subject all the way.

When all else fails I can use your scripts, thank you.

Regards, John