I have deleted all the files on my hard drive, and since I have CD/Floppy swappable drives on my laptop, how can I BOOT from hard drive with CD ROM drive to INSTALL Windows 2000?
Thanks for any help!If you deleted all the files from your hard drive, you cannot boot from it. Put the CD device into the machine, boot the machine into SETUP, make sure the CD is first in the boot sequence, save and exit, put the Win2000 disk in the drive and boot the machine. Follow the on screen instructions for an install.

Hope this helps. I have problem with booting from CD drive, and
I could not use CD and Floppy at same time, so I just want to boot from hard drive with CD rom drive SUPPORT, then I can install Windows.
I used to do this way before but I forget it, I remember I configed config.sys file, anyone can help me?Can you boot from your floppy? If so and you have another machine, you can create a set of Win2000 boot DISKS from your CD.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;197063

When you say you deleted all the files from the hard drive, are you referring to a reformat?

Hope this helps.