Diskette Drv 1 Seek Failure??

[screendiva]

Have Win2000 but some admin guy who might have thought he
was doing me a favor tried to upgrade my system to NT.
Problem is we tried to back out of it but still get this
error on reboot and don't have the Win2000 boot disk
(factory installed. LOVELY.)

Diskette Drive 1 Seek Failure

F2 into Setup doesn't solve the problem.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Have Win2000 but some admin guy who might have thought he
was doing me a favor tried to upgrade my system to NT.
Problem is we tried to back out of it but still get this
error on reboot and don't have the Win2000 boot disk
(factory installed. LOVELY.)

Diskette Drive 1 Seek Failure

F2 into Setup doesn't solve the problem.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance

I'm a little confused by your post. You write
- Have Win2000
- Tried to upgrade my system to NT

Seeing that Win2000 came ***after WinNT, it's a
little hard to see how you can upgrade from Win2000
to WinNT.

You also write that you tried to back out of whatever
you were doing, but you don't say what operating
system you have at the moment, if it works, and
precisely at what state you get the "Seek Failure"
message.

Please clarify!

 

[Guest]

Win2000 is currently installed which doesn't work. As in
bootup gets this error and I can't get past it. I get the
Disk Seek error after BIOS tries to load but does not
succeed.

I believe NT was loaded afterwards being the sysadmin guy
thought he was doing me a favor and upgrading my system.
Once we cancelled the install this error occurred.
This also looks like an NT error as well.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

If you have an existing installation of Win2000,
plus an aborted installation of WinNT, then your
system is probably cooked. I suggest you do
this:
- Boot with your Win2000 CD
- Select "Install" when prompted, not "Repair".
- Select "Repair" when prompted the second time.

I also suggest you examine the credentials of the
sysadmin guy who recommended an "upgrade"
from Win2000 to WinNT.

 

[Carl Fenley]

Have Win2000 but some admin guy who might have thought he
was doing me a favor tried to upgrade my system to NT.
Problem is we tried to back out of it but still get this
error on reboot and don't have the Win2000 boot disk
(factory installed. LOVELY.)

Diskette Drive 1 Seek Failure

F2 into Setup doesn't solve the problem.
Any suggestions?

Are you sure you're didn't have Windows Millenium Edition (ME) instead of
Windows 2000. They are two very different products, but an "upgrade" to
NT/2000 from ME is much more reasonable.

When you say F2 doesn't solve the problem... what did you do in the BIOS
setup? Did you Disable the Floppy Drive Seek at Bootup commonly available
in most BIOS these days? Also, set as Uninstalled or Disabled any mention
of a Floppy Drive or Legacy Floppy Device in the system.

Frankly, I do that on all my systems. Floppy drives are the root of much
evil.

- carl

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Are you sure you're didn't have Windows Millenium Edition (ME) instead of
Windows 2000. They are two very different products, but an "upgrade" to
NT/2000 from ME is much more reasonable.

I'm not sure how exactly your "upgrade" (your quotes) is to be
interpreteded, and what you mean with "reasonable", but for
clarity's sake it should be stated that there is no such thing
as an upgrade from WinME to Win2000. WinME was issued
***after*** Win2000, and any such upgrade is unsupported
and is likely to cause weird and wonderful problems.

 

[Guest]

Thanks I'll try these!

-----Original Message-----


Are you sure you're didn't have Windows Millenium Edition (ME) instead of
Windows 2000. They are two very different products, but an "upgrade" to
NT/2000 from ME is much more reasonable.

When you say F2 doesn't solve the problem... what did you do in the BIOS
setup? Did you Disable the Floppy Drive Seek at Bootup commonly available
in most BIOS these days? Also, set as Uninstalled or Disabled any mention
of a Floppy Drive or Legacy Floppy Device in the system.

Frankly, I do that on all my systems. Floppy drives are the root of much
evil.

- carl


.

 

[Carl Fenley]

I'm not sure how exactly your "upgrade" (your quotes) is to be
interpreteded, and what you mean with "reasonable", but for
clarity's sake it should be stated that there is no such thing
as an upgrade from WinME to Win2000. WinME was issued
***after*** Win2000, and any such upgrade is unsupported
and is likely to cause weird and wonderful problems.

I was using the word "upgrade" in the layman's sense of the term, not the
"legal" sense. I was developing applications using Visual Studio 6 on
Windows ME and cut my Web-teeth with the unsupported (by Microsoft) PWS
running on Windows 95, but in order to use Visual Studio .NET 2002, I had to
"upgrade" my development system to Windows 2000 and my web-server to Windows
2000 and IIS 5.0.

I hope that clears up my meaning...

- carl