initial setup is a mess

[Quaestor]

I'm running a win98 machine, installing win2000 on the D: drive.

After hours of repeat installation attempts from the CD (because I could
not get past the complaints about my other drive being a RAID), I got to
the point of all the collecting information in the GUI. It took a
machine name, admin password, networking protocols, and started loading
files, and crashed.

SO I started again, it got almost as far and gave me the problem with
%%\system32\config\security Apparently it saved some of that, but
didn't finish, and now I have no way past this problem.

Searches indicate the way to fix this is to Repair, but repair without a
ERD does nothing for this, and without being able to get the setup
complete I cannot create an ERD.

Any way to fix this, or do I throw out the install and start over?

 

[Dave Patrick]

You'll want to boot the Windows 2000 setup disks or CD-Rom. The set of four
install disks can be created from your Windows 2000 CD-Rom; change to the
\bootdisk directory on the CD-Rom and execute makeboot.exe (from dos) or
makebt32.exe (from 32 bit) and follow the prompts.

Then *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 raid 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.

When you get to the point, delete the existing NTFS and or other partitions
found. After you delete the partition(s) abort the install, then again
restart the pc booting the CD-Rom or setup disks to avoid unexpected drive
letter assignments with your new install.

Be sure to apply these to your new install before connecting to any network.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/6/A/E6A04295-D2A8-40D0-A0C5-241BFECD095E/W2KSP4_EN.EXE
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-043.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-049.mspx

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Regards,

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:
| I'm running a win98 machine, installing win2000 on the D: drive.
|
| After hours of repeat installation attempts from the CD (because I could
| not get past the complaints about my other drive being a RAID), I got to
| the point of all the collecting information in the GUI. It took a
| machine name, admin password, networking protocols, and started loading
| files, and crashed.
|
| SO I started again, it got almost as far and gave me the problem with
| %%\system32\config\security Apparently it saved some of that, but
| didn't finish, and now I have no way past this problem.
|
| Searches indicate the way to fix this is to Repair, but repair without a
| ERD does nothing for this, and without being able to get the setup
| complete I cannot create an ERD.
|
| Any way to fix this, or do I throw out the install and start over?
|

 

[Quaestor]

restart the pc booting the CD-Rom or setup disks to avoid unexpected drive
letter assignments with your new install.

Be sure to apply these to your new install before connecting to any network.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/6/A/E6A04295-D2A8-40D0-A0C5-241BFECD095E/W2KSP4_EN.EXE
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-043.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-049.mspx

Thanks. As per my second post, I finagled my way past the RAID problem,
but now the final setup is kicking my butt. No idea what's causing
that. I think I will try setting up with No network support, and add
that later, see if it at least gets me through setup.

 

[Quaestor]

As per my second post, I finagled my way past the RAID problem, but
now the final setup is kicking my butt. No idea what's causing that.
I think I will try setting up with No network support, and add that
later, see if it at least gets me through setup. \

update: I tried setting up with no networking and it still hung at the
same point, trying to load the Distributed Transaction Coordinator.

I also tried removing the CD at that point and getting the files from
copies on the HD, which worked right up to the point where it tried to
load the Distributed Transaction Coordinator. Of course if that file is
bad on the CD then it will be bad on my HD.

scandisk says the HD is good, memtest says the ram is good. win98se is
running fine on the same system. I don't see anything could be the cause.

Do I have a bad CD? Is something else causing this? Any workaround? I
paid good money for this OS, it would be nice to be able to use it. :-(

 

[Quaestor]

update: I tried setting up with no networking and it still hung at
the same point, trying to load the Distributed Transaction Coordinator.

I also tried removing the CD at that point and getting the files from
copies on the HD, which worked right up to the point where it tried to
load the Distributed Transaction Coordinator. Of course if that file
is bad on the CD then it will be bad on my HD.

scandisk says the HD is good, memtest says the ram is good. win98se
is running fine on the same system. I don't see anything could be the
cause.

Do I have a bad CD? Is something else causing this? Any workaround?
I paid good money for this OS, it would be nice to be able to use
it. :-(

Finally worked this out. I had to disable by scsi RAID card, then the
thing loaded up just fine. :-\