Re: reinstallation

From: Dave Patrick (mail_at_NoSpam.DSPatrick.com)
Date: 02/22/04 

Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 07:18:24 -0700

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. 

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Regards,
Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
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"peter t" wrote:
| I'm reinstalling Windows 2000 on my IBM NetVista.
| Everything works fine through the 4 installation floppy
| disks.
|
| Then I load in my Win2k CD, which is an upgrade so I load
| in my Win NT 3.51 CD and everything is still fine.
|
| Then the screen says to remove any floppy's because its
| going to reboot.  Everything is still great until...
|
| ...When my machine reboots, it stalls on the black screen
| with the underscore in the upper left blinking.
|
| Any idea what the problem is?
| At first I thought it was my hard drive, so I tried
| installation with another drive and the same thing
| happens.  This CD is not the original CD Rom but has
| worked for two years.  Is this a motherboard thing?  Any
| idea where the corruption is>
|
| Thanks in advance!

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