Aussie needs urgent help...

[Brad]

My W2K has not been booting. It stopped at the W2K splash
screen when the blue loading bar got about 3/4's of the
way across. Occassionally, it worked, but I was always
able to get into safe mode, even though it took a bloody
long time.
Anyway, after discussion with a few people I decided to
format the C: drive (partitioned with a D:, but left this
to preserve data) and reinstall windows 2000 professional.
I have got another problem, the install stops when the
load bar gets about half way while detecting and
installing devices ...WHAT DO I DO???

 

[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.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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| My W2K has not been booting. It stopped at the W2K splash
| screen when the blue loading bar got about 3/4's of the
| way across. Occassionally, it worked, but I was always
| able to get into safe mode, even though it took a bloody
| long time.
| Anyway, after discussion with a few people I decided to
| format the C: drive (partitioned with a D:, but left this
| to preserve data) and reinstall windows 2000 professional.
| I have got another problem, the install stops when the
| load bar gets about half way while detecting and
| installing devices ...WHAT DO I DO???