Hang Up During Clean Install of Windows 2000 Pro

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Kevin Myer

I'm having a problem performing a fresh install of Windows
2000 Pro. The disk has been formatted for a clean install
but the procedure keeps getting hung up on the screen
where it says, "Setup is inspecting your computer's
hardware configuration"

The process does not go beyond this point. I've had this
problem before and after several re-boots, it'll finally
continue imediately past that screen. For some reason, I
can't figure out what makes it suddenly continue with the
install process. As of now, it just gets stuck here.

I've tried booting from the cd and then made the 4 boot
disks but gets stuck no matter which way you go.

Any ideas how to get past this problem would be greatly
appreciated....

Kevin D. Myer
 
You didn't mention the drive controller (possibly SCSI, or ultra DMA, or
ATA100, or raid), 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.
 
That loos to me like the most likely case...

Havingsaid that another reason might be that ONE is trying to install
Win2000 on a system with at least ONE (not fully) compatible piece of
HARDWARE like a sound card or modem, etc. Best way ot go about this (if the
user off course suspects the hardware as a problem) is to REMOVE all cards
and install Win2000, then add each card& bootup & repeact theproces until
you find out which card is causing the problem...

Ted

Dave Patrick said:
You didn't mention the drive controller (possibly SCSI, or ultra DMA, or
ATA100, or raid), 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 MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]

Kevin Myer said:
I'm having a problem performing a fresh install of Windows
2000 Pro. The disk has been formatted for a clean install
but the procedure keeps getting hung up on the screen
where it says, "Setup is inspecting your computer's
hardware configuration"

The process does not go beyond this point. I've had this
problem before and after several re-boots, it'll finally
continue imediately past that screen. For some reason, I
can't figure out what makes it suddenly continue with the
install process. As of now, it just gets stuck here.

I've tried booting from the cd and then made the 4 boot
disks but gets stuck no matter which way you go.

Any ideas how to get past this problem would be greatly
appreciated....

Kevin D. Myer
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