reinstalling windows

[wonderfibre]

right. my installation of win2k proffesioanl has been knackered by a virus or something, so i'm taking this as the opportunity to do the big reformat and reinstall which i've been promoising myself for the last 6 months.

now, i've alway felt that win2k was a bit bloated for my lo spec home-user pc so i've decided that seeing as i have a copy of windows millenium upgrade i'll use that instead. it's my understanding that if i try to install is on a blank HD it'll first ask me to prove that i have a copy of windows so that it can install.

so my question is: if i prove i have windows byt sticking my windows 98SE disc in, will it need to install that first (FAT32!!) or will it be able to do a nice, fresh NTFS install?

thanks :)

[kcxdev]

I would just stick 98SE on it and forget about ME.

[ben.bayliss]

Or stick with 2000. It's really very nice and not bloated at all. Definately avoid ME.

[fabbers]

Yeah avoid ME, preferably stick with 2000 it's mile more stable than both ME and 98SE.

Also note that 98 and ME won't support NTFS,

[wonderfibre]

cheers for that guys :)

which leads me into my next question, i've got a motherboard with onboard sound & graphics but whenever i do a search for drivers for these, all i get is a .bin file which i assume is used for flashing the mobo (which i don't want to do)

any ideas? all i've got is a crappy manual (with no website link!!!) saying it's an M5SAA...

[lynx]

Down at the bottom...http://www.biostar.com.tw/support/manual/archives.php3 Edit, that will teach me to read.The link is for a manual, sorry.