Windows2000Pro setup problem

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I've looked through the group but couldn't find anyone
with the problem I'm having. Basics first. I've got a
Gateway laptop. 1.3 gig Intel M, 512 megs ram and a 30
gig HDD. It came with and is designed for Windows 2k. I
had it set up with a dual boot Win98/Win2kPro before I
accidentally formatted my C:\ partition. I have the HDD
seperated into 3 partitions. 1 for 98, 1 for 2k and 1 for
my data. I have tried upgrading, doing a clean install,
formatting c:\ and installing win2k only and every time it
reboots the first time fine, continues with setup(getting
machine id data and such) but the second time it roboots,
it goes past my bios screen and then hangs on a blank
screen with a cursor flashing in the top left corner. I
don't have a bios anti-virus setting to change and have
played with a few other settings, but nothing gets me any
farther. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
 
I have seen this when it gets hung on an IDE driver or problem. It can't find the boot.ini file or the information in the boot file
is wrong. The boot.ini file may be pointing it to a WINNT folder on a different partition. It found the bootable drive or you
would have gotten an error stating no system disk. But it doesn't know what to boot to, or where. Have you tried the repair
options?
 
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I've looked through the group but couldn't find anyone
with the problem I'm having. Basics first. I've got a
Gateway laptop. 1.3 gig Intel M, 512 megs ram and a 30
gig HDD. It came with and is designed for Windows 2k. I
had it set up with a dual boot Win98/Win2kPro before I
accidentally formatted my C:\ partition. I have the HDD
seperated into 3 partitions. 1 for 98, 1 for 2k and 1 for
my data. I have tried upgrading, doing a clean install,
formatting c:\ and installing win2k only and every time it
reboots the first time fine, continues with setup(getting
machine id data and such) but the second time it roboots,
it goes past my bios screen and then hangs on a blank
screen with a cursor flashing in the top left corner. I
don't have a bios anti-virus setting to change and have
played with a few other settings, but nothing gets me any
farther. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
.
I think the best thing to do is 1)using a windows 98
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start up disk, format all partitions, including non-dos
partitions. then 2) recreate all three partitions, 1 for
98se the second for 2000, and the third for your docs.
try it and let us know.
 
Thanks for the tips, but I figured it out before I got
back online. It ended up working after fdisk ing and
formatting the partitions several times in a row. Dunno
why it didn't work before, but I got it going. Thanks
anyways.
 
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