Re: Can't install Win 2000 on my computer

Disconnect the SATA HD, disable SATA in your system bios and
make sure the IDE drive is set to primary boot device. Once
Win2K is installed and the latest service pack applied, you can
enable the SATA drive and add it.

Also, unless you slipstream a service pack into your Win2K install
CD, that 250GB IDE drive will be a problem. Make sure you
install Win2K on the first partition of the drive, and make sure this
partition resides completely within the first 8GB of the drive (the
actual limit is something around 7.8GB). Again, this limitation
doesn't apply if you slipstream SP2, 3 or 4 into your install CD.

belveder" <belveder69@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4490ec7b$0$7212$5a62ac22@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
have tried to install this os on my computer but I can only get as far
as the screen that says it is checking for devices then it just freezes.
For the life of me I just can't figure so I am stuck with XP lol.

My system is

K8n NEO Platinum Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64+ 3200 CPU with Thermaltake Venus12 fan
2 gig DDR400 memory
MSI NX6600GT Video Card
Leadtek Winfast DTV1000T TV Card
250 GIG Western Digital IDE HD (with 5 partitions)
200 GIG Western Digital SATA HD (with 4 partitions)
80 gig WD IDE External HD for backups
NEC ND 3520A DVD Burner
Pioneer 110 DVD Burner
SoundBlaster Audigy2 ZS soundcard
Topower TOP-500PS 560W PSU
Thermaltake Kandalf Tower
Logitech Elite Keyboard
Logitech Optical Mouse
Altec Lansing 5100 5.1 speaker system


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