Re: Win2000 Pro won't install

From: Dave Patrick (mail_at_NoSpam.DSPatrick.com)
Date: 05/17/04 

Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 11:37:40 -0600

You didn't mention the drive controller (possibly SCSI, or ultra DMA, or
ATA100, or raid, or serial ATA), but you may need to boot the Windows 2000
setup disks or CD-Rom and *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 drive's
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. 

-- 
Regards,
Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect
"MT" wrote:
| My attempts to do a clean installation on an AMD 900/30 gb
| hd have failed. I keep getting an error that a
| file "failed to copy" during the setup phase. The hard
| drive formats OK and the the files start to copy to the
| HD, but fail...sometimes only a few, sometimes many.
|
| I changed out the CDROM, hard drive, removed each memory
| stick (128, 64, 64) and tried the installation each time
| with no luck. Prior to the attempted Win2K installation,
| this PC was running Win98 with no apparant problems.
|
| Anyone have any ideas how I can resolve this delima?
| Thanks
| Mike

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Toshiba S100 Problem With RAID Driver
    ... Add RAID drivers and Service Pack 2 to your original Windows CD! ... Windows XP setup CD ... Our next objective is to extract Service Pack 2 to a folder so we can ...
    (comp.sys.laptops)
  • Re: installation problems on new hard drive
    ... If your drive controller is not natively supported then you'll want to boot ... the Windows XP CD-Rom. ... Then *F6* very early and very important (at setup is ... insert the manufacturer supplied Windows XP driver for your drive controller ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers)
  • Re: Win2K stops during devices check
    ... ATA100, or raid, or serial ATA), but you may need to boot the Windows 2000 ... setup disks or CD-Rom and *F6* very early and very important (at setup is ... inspecting your system) in the setup to prevent drive controller detection, ... If you wait and then S to specify additional drivers, ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.setup_deployment)
  • RE: restarting without warning (usually when online)
    ... Method 3: (Repair Windows XP) ... Once you have pressed a key, setup should begin. ... It will continue to load files and drivers. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)
  • Re: hard drive is not recognized by the operating system
    ... ATA100, or raid, or serial ATA), but you may need to boot the Windows 2000 ... setup disks or CD-Rom and *F6* very early and very important (at setup is ... inspecting your system) in the setup to prevent drive controller detection, ... If you wait and then S to specify additional drivers, ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.setup)
Loading