Disk I/O error 00008020 on install

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From: JinLan (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/22/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 22:09:45 -0700

I'm trying to install Win2K from the installation Cd on an
Athlon 1600 XP System I've put together with a Maxtor
DiamondMax Plus 9 60GB HDD. The HDD is jumpered as Primary
Master and formatted via MaxBlast3 for Win2K. The CD-ROM
drive shows up as Secondary Slave when the machine is
powered on.

As soon as Win2K starts to load from the CD, I get the
Disk I/O error 00008020 with the message, "Failed to
arcread the boot partition to check for a signature."

I'm not sure whether I've got a cabling/hardware
configuration problem or what, but this is the last time
I'll try to build my own system. At least not without
documentation.

P.S. I've checked the KB and I've seen a similar problem
with an 00008001 error with a ZIP drive, but I don't have
one.

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