Dmetsys you were 100% correct about the usb floppy drive. I hooked up a internal floppy and bingo my win2k recognized the driver and installed to the hard drive! Thank you so much as i have been chasing my tail for days! Now i have another issue with my MBR.

You see once win2k installs to the hard drive it does a reboot. However during that reboot i get a fast message (couldn't open the boot partition) or something like that. So win2k just loops and goes for the install again. So just to clarify below.

When i turn on the computer with the win2k cd in the drive. It does not give me a option to boot from cd or hard drive. I do not get to chose. So same deal when win2k is installing and loads all files on my drive. On the reboot i do not get the option to load from hard drive. I just boots again from the win2k cd.

So i figured i will try a win9x start up disk/boot disk and i switch the options in the bios to boot from A: drive. The floppy boots to A: and try to run fdisk commands but the computer has no idea about the sata hard drive is hooked up.

I think when i installed Linux mint it took over my MBR. I haven't been able to figure out how to recover it. However i will say this. I would still like mint or ubuntu installed on the this computer with win2k. If that helps any with the issues.

So any ideas on how to fix my MBR?

You definitely hosed the MBR, and you will more then likely have to re-install W2K Pro again. The next time you go to install Mint/Ubuntu/Debian on that system, choose 'Install alongside Windows'. This way W2K Pro will be added to the GRUB bootloader.

When i installed mint the hard drive was clean with no OS. Remember i could never get win2k installed. So linux mint never had a option to install alongside windows that wasn't there.

I will just yank the sata drive and place it into another computer that will natively recognize it. That way i can fix the MBR and get back to finally loaded win2k on this hard drive.

Thanks for all you help Demetsys!