A co-worker enherited a P-II workstation with a Win 2000 OS. I think the
hard drive is ready to croak, but I was able to clean it up and run it.
Problem is I cannot boot directly to the C: drive. After the OS loads it
goes to the network log in and of course it is not connected to the network
anymore. Is there any way to bypass the network logon so that the PC loads
Win 2000 and boot direcly from the C: drive?
This is kinda desperate request as the co worker's son needs it to do some
school work.

When you boot up, pretty much stare at the monitor the entire time as you
can miss this, but something may appear which says hit F12 to Select boot
device. Do this and select the C drive. If this doesn't work there may be a
select F1 or F2 option which says Settings and lets you go in and
permanently change whatever BIOS settings you need to to bypass the issue
you are experiencing.

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-Stan
"bill l." <bill l.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>A co-worker enherited a P-II workstation with a Win 2000 OS. I think the
> hard drive is ready to croak, but I was able to clean it up and run it.
> Problem is I cannot boot directly to the C: drive. After the OS loads it
> goes to the network log in and of course it is not connected to the
> network
> anymore. Is there any way to bypass the network logon so that the PC
> loads
> Win 2000 and boot direcly from the C: drive?
> This is kinda desperate request as the co worker's son needs it to do some
> school work.
>

Can you log in locally by clicking options?
"bill l." <bill l.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0F5B8C24-BAE0-40A1-9EAE-(E-Mail Removed)...
>A co-worker enherited a P-II workstation with a Win 2000 OS. I think the
> hard drive is ready to croak, but I was able to clean it up and run it.
> Problem is I cannot boot directly to the C: drive. After the OS loads it
> goes to the network log in and of course it is not connected to the
> network
> anymore. Is there any way to bypass the network logon so that the PC
> loads
> Win 2000 and boot direcly from the C: drive?
> This is kinda desperate request as the co worker's son needs it to do some
> school work.
>

No.

"Brad Wilson" wrote:

> Can you log in locally by clicking options?
> "bill l." <bill l.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:0F5B8C24-BAE0-40A1-9EAE-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >A co-worker enherited a P-II workstation with a Win 2000 OS. I think the
> > hard drive is ready to croak, but I was able to clean it up and run it.
> > Problem is I cannot boot directly to the C: drive. After the OS loads it
> > goes to the network log in and of course it is not connected to the
> > network
> > anymore. Is there any way to bypass the network logon so that the PC
> > loads
> > Win 2000 and boot direcly from the C: drive?
> > This is kinda desperate request as the co worker's son needs it to do some
> > school work.
> >
>
>
>

I could only get through the boot up settings by hitting "DEL". From there I
changed the "Boot Sequence" to "C, CDROM,A" in the "BIOS FEATURES SETUP", and
left everything else as is. I don't think this is the right way, but I do
not see the F12 to select the boot device.
It now looks like it's hitting a bad area on the HD. A message flashes up
so fast (can't read it fast enough) but I thought I saw something about a
corrupt sector or kernel, then the whole thing reboots all over again.
Any other suggestions will be very much appreciated. If I can find the
Win2000 CD at the office, would it help just reloading the whole OS over the
current one?
Thank you.


"Stanley Jones [MSFT]" wrote:

> When you boot up, pretty much stare at the monitor the entire time as you
> can miss this, but something may appear which says hit F12 to Select boot
> device. Do this and select the C drive. If this doesn't work there may be a
> select F1 or F2 option which says Settings and lets you go in and
> permanently change whatever BIOS settings you need to to bypass the issue
> you are experiencing.
>
> --
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights
>
> -Stan
> "bill l." <bill l.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:0F5B8C24-BAE0-40A1-9EAE-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >A co-worker enherited a P-II workstation with a Win 2000 OS. I think the
> > hard drive is ready to croak, but I was able to clean it up and run it.
> > Problem is I cannot boot directly to the C: drive. After the OS loads it
> > goes to the network log in and of course it is not connected to the
> > network
> > anymore. Is there any way to bypass the network logon so that the PC
> > loads
> > Win 2000 and boot direcly from the C: drive?
> > This is kinda desperate request as the co worker's son needs it to do some
> > school work.
> >
>
>
>

Download the hard disk manufacturers disk testing program. Use that program
to do a low level format of the hard disk then reinstall Wikndows 2000.

"bill l." <bill l.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0F5B8C24-BAE0-40A1-9EAE-(E-Mail Removed)...
> A co-worker enherited a P-II workstation with a Win 2000 OS. I think the
> hard drive is ready to croak, but I was able to clean it up and run it.
> Problem is I cannot boot directly to the C: drive. After the OS loads it
> goes to the network log in and of course it is not connected to the
network
> anymore. Is there any way to bypass the network logon so that the PC
loads
> Win 2000 and boot direcly from the C: drive?
> This is kinda desperate request as the co worker's son needs it to do some
> school work.
>