Problem Installing Windows 2000 Pro

[Ronald Nye]

I have tried for weeks to reinstall W2K...I format the
hard drive by using a Windows 98 startup disk and can boot
to the CD-ROM drive. Windows 2000 starts to load, it
checks the c: drive and starts to copy files, but tells me
it can not find the following files..."advapi32.dll,
jet500.dll, arial.ttf, browsevi.dll, c_932.nls and
cdosys.dll" at which point the computer locks up.

Any suggestions...thanks before hand

 

[Dave Patrick]

Try a different CD-Rom drive. To do a clean install, either boot the CD-Rom
or boot the Windows 2000 setup disks. The set of four install disks can be
created from your Win2k 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.

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.

 

[Lawrence Tse]

It may still possible that Windows 2000 setup cannot recognize your HDD
controller. Is that a too new standard? You can try press "F6" during
setup initization blue screen (you will actually got this prompt at the
bottom of screen). Then insert the HDD controller driver at that time.