Hello,
Let me start at the beginning. My father has a gateway and he wanted me to reformat it. He doesn't have any disks or anything to do that with. So i went online and started looking around to find out how to do that with out the needed disks. I ended up starting the computer in DOS and typing in something that that asked me if i was sure i wanted to because it would delete everything. I SAID yes thinking it would reformat it and then i could just install microsoft 2000 but instead i now cannot get out of dos and everything i try to put in tells me that it doesn't understand my command. PLEASE HELP MEDo you have the Windows 2000 disc?
If so, you need to boot from the CD and it will guide you through the installation.Well if you formatted the hard drive I would guess it would no longer understand dos commands. That and if you formatted the hard drive there is nothing to "exit" too.

I suggest putting the Windows 2000 CD into the CD-Rom and reboot the computer. Make sure your BIOS is set up to boot from CD and NOT the hard drive.

Usually when a computer first boots it tells you to hit F10 or Delete to get into settings or setup. Once in BIOS set the boot drive to your CD-Rom and you should be ok.i can't get it to take the disk i have tried to do that already but it goes straight to dosHave you gone into the BIOS and select your first boot drive as your CD rom and not the Hard Drive?i have tried that but i am not sure if i am doing it right let me try againwould i go into the boot OPTIONSTHE quick boot is disabled and the first boot device is ATAPI CDROM is that correctThat should be your CD drive, yes.that is what i thought. so i put that as my first one to start and i put in the windows 2000 disk and when it started up it went straight to dos and the screen shows C:\> and that is it (other than the generic Microsoft logo)It gets confusing when you double POST and get answers from everyone.
Please see your other Post for possible solutions.

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