Re: win2000 install problem

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DL <address@invalid> typed:

Did you prepare / partition / format the hd with the installation cd
or did you use a third party utility?

The disk was "wiped" using Maxtor's maxllf.exe low-level formatter from a
win98 boot floppy. Then, win2000 was booted from the 4 boot floppies created
on another machine from the installation CD with the makeboot.exe program,
which then read the remainder of the installtion from the CD after it caused
a reboot. The win2000 setup saw the disk with no partition table and offered
a choice of NTFS or FAT32, and I chose NTFS on a single partition. No
problems were encountered until 51% of the files from the CD were copied, at
which time dll file copies were failing.


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