windows 2000 installation woes

[avinash.raghupathy]

Hello - My girlfriends pc which was running win 98 recently crashed (it
was starting fine in safe mode, but during a normal boot up, it would
go through BIOS screens and the Win 98 startup screen and then get
stuck on a blank screen with a blinking cursor)

I took it as a sign to install win 2k pro - so i got some floppies,
went through the steps - but after copying the files to C: drive, which
i formatted as NTFS and is blank except for a folder where i
transferred her old documents, it says remove floppy disk and setup
will continue after reboot - machine restarts but the setup never
continues... has anyone faced this issue before?

machine is a Pentium 3 - 600 Mhz, 256Mb ram, 20GB hard drive - its an
ancient pc but dont feel like upgding yet...

I have tried:
1. switched graphic cards thought that might be the issue - but had the
same failure with 2 different graphic cards.
2. removed all H/W connections and reconnected (floppy, primary and
secondary IDEs, power, all PCIs, AGP grafix card, memory)

Please help!

 

[Dave Patrick]

To do a clean install, either boot the Windows 2000 install CD-Rom or setup
disks. 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.

Setup inspects your computer's hardware configuration and then begins to
install the Setup and driver files. When the Windows 2000 Professional
screen appears, press ENTER to set up Windows 2000 Professional.

Read the license agreement, and then press the F8 key to accept the terms of
the license agreement and continue the installation.

When the Windows 2000 Professional Setup screen appears, all the existing
partitions and the unpartitioned spaces are listed for each physical hard
disk. Use the ARROW keys to select the partitions Press D to delete an
existing partition, If you press D to delete an existing partition, you must
then press L (or press ENTER, and then press L if it is the System
partition) to confirm that you want to delete the partition. Repeat this
step for each of the existing partitions When all the partitions are deleted
press F3 to exit setup, (to avoid unexpected drive letter assignments with
your new install) then restart the pc then when you get to this point in
setup again select the unpartitioned space, and then press C to create a new
partition and specify the size (if required). Windows will by default use
all available space.

Be sure to apply SP4 and these two below to your new install before
connecting to any network. Internet included. (sasser, msblast)
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

Then

Rollup 1 for Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...CF-8850-4531-B52B-BF28B324C662&displaylang=en

--

Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

| Hello - My girlfriends pc which was running win 98 recently crashed (it
| was starting fine in safe mode, but during a normal boot up, it would
| go through BIOS screens and the Win 98 startup screen and then get
| stuck on a blank screen with a blinking cursor)
|
| I took it as a sign to install win 2k pro - so i got some floppies,
| went through the steps - but after copying the files to C: drive, which
| i formatted as NTFS and is blank except for a folder where i
| transferred her old documents, it says remove floppy disk and setup
| will continue after reboot - machine restarts but the setup never
| continues... has anyone faced this issue before?
|
| machine is a Pentium 3 - 600 Mhz, 256Mb ram, 20GB hard drive - its an
| ancient pc but dont feel like upgding yet...
|
| I have tried:
| 1. switched graphic cards thought that might be the issue - but had the
| same failure with 2 different graphic cards.
| 2. removed all H/W connections and reconnected (floppy, primary and
| secondary IDEs, power, all PCIs, AGP grafix card, memory)
|
| Please help!
|

 

[avinash.raghupathy]

Hi - I have followed those instructions to the letter - I am stuck
where the PC is supposed to reboot and continue windows, but it does
not... it reboots but does not continue. If you are saying to try
completely reformatting the hard drive through the setup program, I
will try that this evening... but somehow I think that will not solve
the problem, as I reformatted the hard drive before starting this whole
process... thanks for your reply - please let me know if you think it
can be something else. Thanks again! avi

To do a clean install, either boot the Windows 2000 install CD-Rom or setup
disks. 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.

Setup inspects your computer's hardware configuration and then begins to
install the Setup and driver files. When the Windows 2000 Professional
screen appears, press ENTER to set up Windows 2000 Professional.

Read the license agreement, and then press the F8 key to accept the terms of
the license agreement and continue the installation.

When the Windows 2000 Professional Setup screen appears, all the existing
partitions and the unpartitioned spaces are listed for each physical hard
disk. Use the ARROW keys to select the partitions Press D to delete an
existing partition, If you press D to delete an existing partition, you must
then press L (or press ENTER, and then press L if it is the System
partition) to confirm that you want to delete the partition. Repeat this
step for each of the existing partitions When all the partitions are deleted
press F3 to exit setup, (to avoid unexpected drive letter assignments with
your new install) then restart the pc then when you get to this point in
setup again select the unpartitioned space, and then press C to create a new
partition and specify the size (if required). Windows will by default use
all available space.

Be sure to apply SP4 and these two below to your new install before
connecting to any network. Internet included. (sasser, msblast)
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

Then

Rollup 1 for Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...CF-8850-4531-B52B-BF28B324C662&displaylang=en

--

Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

| Hello - My girlfriends pc which was running win 98 recently crashed (it
| was starting fine in safe mode, but during a normal boot up, it would
| go through BIOS screens and the Win 98 startup screen and then get
| stuck on a blank screen with a blinking cursor)
|
| I took it as a sign to install win 2k pro - so i got some floppies,
| went through the steps - but after copying the files to C: drive, which
| i formatted as NTFS and is blank except for a folder where i
| transferred her old documents, it says remove floppy disk and setup
| will continue after reboot - machine restarts but the setup never
| continues... has anyone faced this issue before?
|
| machine is a Pentium 3 - 600 Mhz, 256Mb ram, 20GB hard drive - its an
| ancient pc but dont feel like upgding yet...
|
| I have tried:
| 1. switched graphic cards thought that might be the issue - but had the
| same failure with 2 different graphic cards.
| 2. removed all H/W connections and reconnected (floppy, primary and
| secondary IDEs, power, all PCIs, AGP grafix card, memory)
|
| Please help!
|

 

[avinash.raghupathy]

Hi Dave,

I followed your advice and it worked like a charm, reformatting the
partition from within the setup program seems to make a world of
difference.

Thanks again for your advice and tips!

Avinash

Hi - I have followed those instructions to the letter - I am stuck
where the PC is supposed to reboot and continue windows, but it does
not... it reboots but does not continue. If you are saying to try
completely reformatting the hard drive through the setup program, I
will try that this evening... but somehow I think that will not solve
the problem, as I reformatted the hard drive before starting this whole
process... thanks for your reply - please let me know if you think it
can be something else. Thanks again! avi

To do a clean install, either boot the Windows 2000 install CD-Rom or setup
disks. 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.

Setup inspects your computer's hardware configuration and then begins to
install the Setup and driver files. When the Windows 2000 Professional
screen appears, press ENTER to set up Windows 2000 Professional.

Read the license agreement, and then press the F8 key to accept the terms of
the license agreement and continue the installation.

When the Windows 2000 Professional Setup screen appears, all the existing
partitions and the unpartitioned spaces are listed for each physical hard
disk. Use the ARROW keys to select the partitions Press D to delete an
existing partition, If you press D to delete an existing partition, you must
then press L (or press ENTER, and then press L if it is the System
partition) to confirm that you want to delete the partition. Repeat this
step for each of the existing partitions When all the partitions are deleted
press F3 to exit setup, (to avoid unexpected drive letter assignments with
your new install) then restart the pc then when you get to this point in
setup again select the unpartitioned space, and then press C to create a new
partition and specify the size (if required). Windows will by default use
all available space.

Be sure to apply SP4 and these two below to your new install before
connecting to any network. Internet included. (sasser, msblast)
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

Then

Rollup 1 for Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...CF-8850-4531-B52B-BF28B324C662&displaylang=en

--

Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

| Hello - My girlfriends pc which was running win 98 recently crashed (it
| was starting fine in safe mode, but during a normal boot up, it would
| go through BIOS screens and the Win 98 startup screen and then get
| stuck on a blank screen with a blinking cursor)
|
| I took it as a sign to install win 2k pro - so i got some floppies,
| went through the steps - but after copying the files to C: drive, which
| i formatted as NTFS and is blank except for a folder where i
| transferred her old documents, it says remove floppy disk and setup
| will continue after reboot - machine restarts but the setup never
| continues... has anyone faced this issue before?
|
| machine is a Pentium 3 - 600 Mhz, 256Mb ram, 20GB hard drive - its an
| ancient pc but dont feel like upgding yet...
|
| I have tried:
| 1. switched graphic cards thought that might be the issue - but had the
| same failure with 2 different graphic cards.
| 2. removed all H/W connections and reconnected (floppy, primary and
| secondary IDEs, power, all PCIs, AGP grafix card, memory)
|
| Please help!
|

 

[Dave Patrick]

You're welcome.

--

Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

| Hi Dave,
|
| I followed your advice and it worked like a charm, reformatting the
| partition from within the setup program seems to make a world of
| difference.
|
| Thanks again for your advice and tips!
|
| Avinash
|
|
| (e-mail address removed) wrote:
| > Hi - I have followed those instructions to the letter - I am stuck
| > where the PC is supposed to reboot and continue windows, but it does
| > not... it reboots but does not continue. If you are saying to try
| > completely reformatting the hard drive through the setup program, I
| > will try that this evening... but somehow I think that will not solve
| > the problem, as I reformatted the hard drive before starting this whole
| > process... thanks for your reply - please let me know if you think it
| > can be something else. Thanks again! avi