win2k reinstall problems

I have my hard drive partitioned and they are all NTFS. I am having problems with any command prompt recognizing NTFS partitions. This is most annoying when trying to reinstall windows 2000. apparently it looks for a fat32 partition to copy setup files onto during startup. the only work around i have found is to use an old win98 boot disk and reformat my windows partition as fat32, than during setup tell it convert it to NTFS. But it seem when i do this it thinks i am dual booting dos and nt because it brings up a dual boot screen on startup!!

also there are time when i need access to my partitions in a dos environment in particularly when gosting a drive. I now i have got norton gost to recognize ntfs before but can not remember how it was done.

can anyone help me out. basically what i am looking for is a way to get a boot disk to give me access to ntfs and why i cant install win2k on an ntfs partition.

DOS can't recognise any partitions other than FAT partitions. It doesn't like anything else.

What you're gunna have to do (if I read you right) is create yourself some Win2k bootdisks off of the Win2k CD and use those to install (If I read you right . . . I'm not sure if I am). You can create and manipulate your partitions from within the Win2k installer.