The drive may have failed. I'd download and run the manufacturer's utilities
from their web site. If it checks Ok then try a new install to an NTFS
partition. NTFS is the native file system of Windows 2000 and is always
recommended.
To do a clean install, either boot the Windows 2000 install CD-Rom or setup
disks. The set of four install disks can be created from your Windows 2000
CD-Rom; 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.
Setup inspects your computer's hardware configuration and then begins to
install the Setup and driver files. When the Windows 2000 Professional
screen appears, press ENTER to set up Windows 2000 Professional.
Read the license agreement, and then press the F8 key to accept the terms of
the license agreement and continue the installation.
When the Windows 2000 Professional Setup screen appears, all the existing
partitions and the unpartitioned spaces are listed for each physical hard
disk. Use the ARROW keys to select the partitions Press D to delete an
existing partition, If you press D to delete an existing partition, you must
then press L (or press ENTER, and then press L if it is the System
partition) to confirm that you want to delete the partition. Repeat this
step for each of the existing partitions When all the partitions are deleted
press F3 to exit setup, (to avoid unexpected drive letter assignments with
your new install) then restart the pc then when you get to this point in
setup again select the unpartitioned space, and then press C to create a new
partition and specify the size (if required). Windows will by default use
all available space.
Be sure to apply SP4 and these two below to your new install before
connecting to any network. Internet included. (sasser, msblast)
http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/6/A/E6A04295-D2A8-40D0-A0C5-241BFECD095E/W2KSP4_EN.EXE
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-043.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-049.mspx
Then
Rollup 1 for Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...CF-8850-4531-B52B-BF28B324C662&displaylang=en
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Regards,
Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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:
| Just did a full W2K professional reinstall into a 20G partition on a
fairly
| new Seagate 80G hard drive. Partition is FAT32. Ran fine for quite a few
| boot cycles, and turned machine back over to my Daughter. She brought it
up
| the following morning, then went away to eat breakfast. While unattended,
it
| went into BSOD, with a message she didn't record. When she restarted, she
is
| now getting:
|
| "Disk I/O error: status = 00001000"
|
| "Windows 2000 could not start because the following is missing or corrupt:
| <Windows 2000 root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
| Please re-install a copy of the above."
|
| What is cause? Should I just download a copy of ntoskrnl and reinstall
it?
|
