If you can boot the CD-Rom then you don't need to setup disks. Be sure to
delete the partition and restart setup. You didn't mention the drive
controller (possibly SCSI, or ultra DMA, or ATA100, or raid, or serial ATA),
but you may need to boot the Windows 2000 setup disks or CD-Rom and *F6*
very early and very important (at setup is inspecting your system) in the
setup to prevent drive controller detection, and select S to specify
additional drivers. Then later you'll be prompted to insert the manufacturer
supplied Windows 2000 driver for your drive's controller in drive "A"
If you wait and then S to specify additional drivers, then it may be too
late as Windows 2000 Setup at this point may have already assigned the
resources your drive's controller is wanting to use.
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Regards,
Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect
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| I have a similar problem, but I have been running win2k for about 18
| troublefree months. Three days ago it suddenly crashed, bluescreen and
| wouldnt boot up. I have tried reinstalling. Win2k setup has told me
| three times that the disk is damaged or corrupt, but I have tested the
| Fujitsu 40 gig drive with a fujistsu test program which confirms it is
| helathy. The isnatlltion can go as far as allowing me to select the
| country for the keyboard and time zone, but later STOP message
| refferring to either cdaudio.sys damaged or driver not loaded, or
| ntsokrn, or various other files. Once it got a longway into copying
| the files over but couldnt find vcmd. even though I could browse to it
| and point setup to it it wouldnt copy it over. I eventually formatted
| the drive, NTFS, and then tried to installl, same problem. I have
| partitioned the drive 5GB and 35 GB, it wont install on either
| partition. I am running out of ideas. At the moment I am trying to
| install win98 just to see if I cna get soemthing working. I am not a
| technical whizz, so I dont quite understand your reply. I have the
| four start up disks and the CD Rom but I didnt understand yur
| instructions about
|
| "change to the \bootdisk directory on the CD-Rom and execute
| makeboot.exe (from dos) or makebt32.exe (from 32 bit) and follow the
| prompts." how d I change to the \bootdisk directory on the CD-ROM? Is
| this relevant?
| Any help appreciated cos Im running out of ideas and hair
|
| Graham
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| grayboy
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