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Installing win2000 no bootable CD drive or network

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Bigdogbmx

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Ok, I have a big problem setting up an old server I jusst bought. It has 4 SCSI drives all with winNT or 2k server, but I cant boot into any because I dont have the password.
I tried making bootdisks for win2000 on this PC so I could load it to do a network install but every time I tried I got a file not found error while setup was loading from the disks even with different floppies.
I cant use the CD because the server is so old that it doesnt have boot from CD capabilities. Is my only option to make a bootdisk set that works or is there a way to make it boot from CD or get into windows long enough to use the setup program on the CD?
I have tried the method involving a dos bootdsisk to get the password folder on a floppy and cracking it or resetting it but thats a no go as well because I cant find a bootdisk that has NTFS and SCSI drivers on the same disk.
Anyone ever got around this type of problem?
 
I have a legal copy of the win2000 CD but the OS installed on the drives when I got the PC were just there already. I was trying to get around the password screen basically because I thought it would be intresting to try out winNT server and win2000 server but I have given up on that and just installed win2000 on one of them anyway so Ill be reformatting the rest maybe for linux as soon as I can be bothered lol
BTW I managed to get the bootdisks to work after a couple more tries of reafoprmatting them and using the win2k mkbootdisk program.

EDIT
Sorry im an idiot I just re read your post and saw what u said, I thought u said 'are you the person you boght it for the password'
I did try that anyway, I asked the shop owner but he said it wasnt my data to be accessing so hes no help, I dont think he even knows it himself as it was a second hand thing to start with.
 
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