cannot boot from hard disk after phase 1 of install finished

[sting]

Hello,
I have a new Maxtor 40 giga hard disk;
I want to install win2k professional on it
I made a partition of 18 Giga and
formatted it with FAT32.
Now, I started installing from win2k professional
install cd rom.
after stage 1 is finished (scanning hardware and
copying files) there appears a message that it
reboots; after reboot, it hangs ; it does not
succeed to continue to next stage of installation.

I had perormed , using Maxtor utilities (PowerMax)
all HardDisk checks and all were OK; I had also performed
low level format (the advanced one) and
try to reinstall Win2k and again the same happened.

What can be the reason ?
reagards,
sting

 

[Bjorn Landemoo]

sting

Is the partition set as active? Check this with fdisk from a Win9x startup
disk.

Another option is to not create the partition before installing, just boot
from the Win2000 CD and let setup create the partition.

Best regards

Bjorn

 

[sting]

Bjorn,
First thnks;
Second , I think I was misunderstood;

I did not create the partition
before installing.
I did create the partition with
windows 2000 installer.

(The only thing I did , before
the second try of installing win2k,
was to perform a low level format using Maxtor
Power Max utility).


regards,
sting

 

[Bjorn Landemoo]

sting

Did you check if the partition is set as active?

What do you see on the screen after POST? Any detail can be valuable in
figuring out what is - or isn't - happening.

Best regards

Bjorn

 

[jaydelano]

I AM HAVING THE EXACT SAME PROBLEM. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE
IS THAT I HAVE A WESTERN DIGITAL 40GB HDD. I WILL CHECK
TO SEE IF THE PARTITION IS ACTIVE.