Windows 2000 Pro - Disk Errors

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Bill

I am having a bit of fun with a fresh install of Windows
2000 Pro on a Compaq Presario 7500. The original hard
drive failed so I replaced it with a Maxtor 40Gb IDE
drive. The BIOS did not auto-detect the new drive, but I
missed this until after I installed the OS. Install
apparently went without a hitch and all runs well, except
that every time Windows starts it want to check the file
system. This fails with a message that the disk "appears
to be a non-Windows 2000 disk"!
I have since updated the BIOS and forced the BIOS to
recognise the new drive, but the errors persist.
Question: Is there any way of fixing this without
reinstalling Windows 2000? I think not, but I would like
to be proved wrong!
Cheers,
Bill
 
If, for whatever reason, the BIOS has mis-detected your drive... at the very
least you are wasting huge chunks of capacity. Reset the BIOS, fdisk,
format, and reinstall for best performance.

BTW, I'd look for a physical cause of the misconfig... get yourself a new
IDE cable, make sure that your boot drive is master on the primary bus, and
make sure the drive itself is pinned out properly (master instead of slave
or cable detect).
 
Thanks, Gerry. I know you are right and I know it is easy
to do it properly, just was trying to avoid inconvenience
for the owner (and make me look less stupid)
Cheers,
Bill
 
Bill said:
I am having a bit of fun with a fresh install of Windows
2000 Pro on a Compaq Presario 7500. The original hard
drive failed so I replaced it with a Maxtor 40Gb IDE
drive. The BIOS did not auto-detect the new drive, but I
missed this until after I installed the OS. Install
apparently went without a hitch and all runs well, except
that every time Windows starts it want to check the file
system. This fails with a message that the disk "appears
to be a non-Windows 2000 disk"!
I have since updated the BIOS and forced the BIOS to
recognise the new drive, but the errors persist.
Question: Is there any way of fixing this without
reinstalling Windows 2000? I think not, but I would like
to be proved wrong!
Cheers,
Bill

If you have corrected your BIOS problem, try:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;292175

How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows 2000
 

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