Windows 2000 Installation Hell....please help

[Nabster]

I am having some majoy problems installing Windows 2000
professional.
FIrst I booted the computer from the installation cd, and
removed the
partition that contained win98se, and I created a new
partition for the
win2000 installation. It formatted it to NFTS. After the
partition work
is done, the computer reboots and starts setup by running
through a wizard
that is meant to detect hardware stuff and install "mouse
and keyboard." It usually
gets through this about 70%, and then the screen goes
black and I get a
flashing cursor. I've tried many things.

This next time, I installed win98, which worked fine, then
upgraded, and told it to change
the drive to NTFS, then it gave me the "stop 0x7b" error
i'm sure you all are familiar with.

I have

 

[Dave Patrick]

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.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect.

:
| I am having some majoy problems installing Windows 2000
| professional.
| FIrst I booted the computer from the installation cd, and
| removed the
| partition that contained win98se, and I created a new
| partition for the
| win2000 installation. It formatted it to NFTS. After the
| partition work
| is done, the computer reboots and starts setup by running
| through a wizard
| that is meant to detect hardware stuff and install "mouse
| and keyboard." It usually
| gets through this about 70%, and then the screen goes
| black and I get a
| flashing cursor. I've tried many things.
|
| This next time, I installed win98, which worked fine, then
| upgraded, and told it to change
| the drive to NTFS, then it gave me the "stop 0x7b" error
| i'm sure you all are familiar with.
|
| I have
| --
| ECS K7S5A motherboard
| Western Digital 60GB HD
| ATi radeon 7000 64mb
| Some other graphics card used for dual monitors
|
|

 

[Nabster]

I'm using ATA of some sort...The problem I am having is
seeming to be only with Western Digital harddrives...would
that make any sense?

 

[Nabster]

8.9ms average seek time
8 mb buffer
up to 100 mb/s data transfer rate using Ultra ATA/100

 

[Dave Patrick]

Nothing to do with the drive, You'll need to manufacturer supplied Windows
2000 driver for your ATA drive controller.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect.

:
| I'm using ATA of some sort...The problem I am having is
| seeming to be only with Western Digital harddrives...would
| that make any sense?