Unresponsive Setup

[Eric]

When I try to reinstall a clean/fresh version of
Windows2000 Professional, the setup program only responds
to certain keystrokes.
I am trying to delete my main partition, but setup will
not register the 'd' keystroke, it will also not register
the 'c' keystroke to create a new partition. It only
accepts Enter.
It is also showing an unpartitioned diskspace of 8MB, I
don't know what that is.

Can anyone tell me how I can get setup to accept the other
keystrokes? Is this a virus?

Thanks for any help,

Eric

 

[Paul Bobrowski]

It could just be a dirty or malfunctioning keyboard. Try using a different
keyboard and see if you get different results.

As for the 8MB of unpartitioned space. Everytime I've setup Windows 2000 I
always see that. I'm not sure why the installer won't let you paritition
it, but don't worry about it.

 

[Eric]

Well the problem is, the d and s keys are working
everywhere else. Just not in setup when I am trying to
delete the partitioned diskspace. Thats why I have the
theory that something is preventing them from operating
during that specific time.

Eric

 

[Paul Bobrowski]

Are you by any chance using a none US keyboard or version of windows? This
could mess up your keymappings and cause this problem. At that point in the
setup try pressing every key one by one.

 

[Alan Illeman]

When I try to reinstall a clean/fresh version of
Windows2000 Professional, the setup program only responds
to certain keystrokes.
I am trying to delete my main partition, but setup will
not register the 'd' keystroke, it will also not register
the 'c' keystroke to create a new partition. It only
accepts Enter.
It is also showing an unpartitioned diskspace of 8MB, I
don't know what that is.

Can anyone tell me how I can get setup to accept the other
keystrokes? Is this a virus?

Thanks for any help,

Eric

Get a DOS boot disk (if you haven't got one goto www.bootdisk.com)
and remove all the partitions using FDISK, before installing.
The 8Mb partition is NTFS related.

 

[Eric]

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give that a shot.
Thank you both for your responses, I greatly appreciate
your insight.

Eric

 

[Guest]

I checked the bar code on the base of the keyboard, it's a
Microsoft Elite keyboard. I bought it in Canada but it's
the same as any US keyboard, as far as I know they all
come from the same manufacturer.

The enter key responds fine, which is the selection to
install a second copy of the operating system over the
existing one. The other options do not work, d and s.
Which would be deleting and installing a new copy or
partitioning a second part of the drive (allowing you to
install a new one and partition the old one afterwards).

E

 

[Eric]

Okay when I click on the "makeboot32" exe my command
window comes up, it asks me to specify which drives i want
to copy the images to, and I type "a". When I hit the "a"
key, the command prompt window closes and im back to the
desktop. No files were copied and the diskette is empty.
Not sure what to do next =/

E

 

[Alan Illeman]

I'm sorry Eric but I don't know what this has to do with the
advice I gave about using FDISK?