Installation on Windows 2000 professional hangs up out on the initial
reboot at "press any key to boot from CD".

No power management.

Motherboard is MSI K7T266 Pro-RU.

thanks

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.

When you get to the point, delete the existing NTFS and or other partitions
found. After you delete the partition(s) abort the install, then again
restart the pc booting the CD-Rom or setup disks to avoid unexpected drive
letter assignments with your new install.

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.

Be sure to apply these to your new install before connecting to any network.

http://download.microsoft.com/downlo.../W2KSP4_EN.EXE
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../MS03-043.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../MS03-049.mspx


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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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"David Sherman" wrote:
| Installation on Windows 2000 professional hangs up out on the initial
| reboot at "press any key to boot from CD".
|
| No power management.
|
| Motherboard is MSI K7T266 Pro-RU.
|
| thanks

Thanks for the ideas but I got W2k to install. It took 4 hours and 2
CD roms, 5 attempts with bootable floppies before the 3rd CD with W2k
would work. I did take your hint to install SP4 before connecing to
the internet. My first connection was to Windows Update to get all the
updates.

It was a standard WDC IDE hard drive.

thanks for the hints.

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 20:26:56 -0600, "Dave Patrick"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>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.
>
>When you get to the point, delete the existing NTFS and or other partitions
>found. After you delete the partition(s) abort the install, then again
>restart the pc booting the CD-Rom or setup disks to avoid unexpected drive
>letter assignments with your new install.
>
>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.
>
>Be sure to apply these to your new install before connecting to any network.
>
>http://download.microsoft.com/downlo.../W2KSP4_EN.EXE
>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../MS03-043.mspx
>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../MS03-049.mspx

You're welcome.

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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

"David Sherman" wrote:
| Thanks for the ideas but I got W2k to install. It took 4 hours and 2
| CD roms, 5 attempts with bootable floppies before the 3rd CD with W2k
| would work. I did take your hint to install SP4 before connecing to
| the internet. My first connection was to Windows Update to get all the
| updates.
|
| It was a standard WDC IDE hard drive.
|
| thanks for the hints.