How do I quit setup...?

[Ian Francis]

I have a Dell Laptop (Inspiron 2600). I had a few problems last week and
just decided to re-install Win2K in an effort to save time and start over
with a fresh system. During the install, immediatly after the "Windows is
about to start" screen, my video kicks out and it appears that Windows is
still going through with the install; judging by hard drive activity.

I have since installed Win2k again in a different directory esentially
making it a dual boot machine and I am still interested in continueing or
aborting the original setup. My problem is that everytime I boot to that
Win2K occurance it immediately goes to the "Setup is being restarted...."
screen and I then loose my video. When I boot to safe mode it will just hang
on the setup screen, sometimes for up to 20 minutes before I just turn it
off. How do I cancel this setup? Or, how do I get my video back to finish
the install? (preferably the first scenario).

Any insight would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Ian

 

[Tim]

-----Original Message-----
I have a Dell Laptop (Inspiron 2600). I had a few problems last week and
just decided to re-install Win2K in an effort to save time and start over
with a fresh system. During the install, immediatly after the "Windows is
about to start" screen, my video kicks out and it appears that Windows is
still going through with the install; judging by hard drive activity.

I have since installed Win2k again in a different directory esentially
making it a dual boot machine and I am still interested in continueing or
aborting the original setup. My problem is that everytime I boot to that
Win2K occurance it immediately goes to the "Setup is being restarted...."
screen and I then loose my video. When I boot to safe mode it will just hang
on the setup screen, sometimes for up to 20 minutes before I just turn it
off. How do I cancel this setup? Or, how do I get my video back to finish
the install? (preferably the first scenario).

Any insight would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Ian


.
boot to working windows 2000, edit boot.ini file to only

boot with good 2000 OS. While in working windows 2000
format other partition
NOTE: boot.ini is read-only, must change attribute before
editing

 

[Ian Francis]

Tim,

There is no "other partition" to format. Also, the occurance of Win2K that
keeps "Restarting the setup" is the one I want to keep as it was actually a
repair of my original Windows setup. All I want to do is stop the
"Restarting of the setup" so I can get into my old Windows setup.

Ian