Oops! Now What ??

[InOverMyHead]

In upgrading to Win2000, I cleaned out my C Drive, then reformatted it. Now
I'm trying to put Win2000 on. But, my machine will not recognize my CD
Drive, Ricoh says they do not provide drivers because Win9x/2000 have
built-in drivers that work. Well, not in DOS!

Anyhow, lacking a CD drive, I used an old external hd with DOS drivers. I
copied the Win2000 CD to the external hd (on another machine) but now the
setup.exe file says it won't run from DOS! Help!! What's left?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Bob

 

[Jonathan Maltz [MS-MVP]]

Try 'winnt.exe' from the I386 directory. Before that, try booting off the
CD

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[Spinner]

In upgrading to Win2000, I cleaned out my C Drive, then reformatted it. Now
I'm trying to put Win2000 on. But, my machine will not recognize my CD
Drive, Ricoh says they do not provide drivers because Win9x/2000 have
built-in drivers that work. Well, not in DOS!

Anyhow, lacking a CD drive, I used an old external hd with DOS drivers. I
copied the Win2000 CD to the external hd (on another machine) but now the
setup.exe file says it won't run from DOS! Help!! What's left?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Bob

You normally do not install 2000 from DOS.
You should boot from the CD.
If you can not boot from the CD, there are floppie images on the cd
to make 2000 bootable install floppies.
Try the CD first. You may have to go into your BIOS and set the CD as
bootable.

 

[InOverMyHead]

You normally do not install 2000 from DOS.
You should boot from the CD.
If you can not boot from the CD, there are floppie images on the cd
to make 2000 bootable install floppies.
Try the CD first. You may have to go into your BIOS and set the CD as
bootable.

Okay, I made the four diskettes (on another computer) and tried to boot from
them, but got nowhere. I got the error message

DISK I/O error: Status = 00001000
NTDETECT failed.

Now what? Is there a "maintenance mode" or command line thing I can use to
get past this error? Can I re-format the C drive? Any help would be greatly
appreciated. (PS: I tried booting from the CD but my machine just does NOT
recognize the CD drive)

Bob

 

[InOverMyHead]

drivers.

Okay, I made the four diskettes (on another computer) and tried to boot from
them, but got nowhere. I got the error message

DISK I/O error: Status = 00001000
NTDETECT failed.

Now what? Is there a "maintenance mode" or command line thing I can use to
get past this error? Can I re-format the C drive? Any help would be greatly
appreciated. (PS: I tried booting from the CD but my machine just does NOT
recognize the CD drive)

Bob

After re-reading these posts, I tried running WINNT.EXE - and it seems to
work. It wanted me to quit and install "smartdrive" but couldn't find such
an animal, so went ahead without it. We'll see how far I get. Wow - what
would one do without two computers? - And I still would like to know what
the I/O error was about.

Bob

 

[Spinner]

After re-reading these posts, I tried running WINNT.EXE - and it seems to
work. It wanted me to quit and install "smartdrive" but couldn't find such
an animal, so went ahead without it. We'll see how far I get. Wow - what
would one do without two computers? - And I still would like to know what
the I/O error was about.

Bob

The disk I/O error sounds like you may have a defective floppy.
When you say your computer will not see the CD, is it showing up at boot on
the bios screen?
If the bios does not see it, nothing else will. If that is the case, you
should check the cables and jumper settings.

 

[Spinner]

drivers.

Okay, I made the four diskettes (on another computer) and tried to boot from
them, but got nowhere. I got the error message

DISK I/O error: Status = 00001000
NTDETECT failed.

Now what? Is there a "maintenance mode" or command line thing I can use to
get past this error? Can I re-format the C drive? Any help would be greatly
appreciated. (PS: I tried booting from the CD but my machine just does NOT
recognize the CD drive)

Bob

If your machine will not see the CD drive, you have hardware problems.
You need to address them before attempting to install an OS.

 

[David H. Lipman]

Use the Win98 Emergency Boot Disk. It has a generic DOS CDROM driver.

Dave