Re: Win2000 hangs in install while checking hardware?

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Looks like your hardware may not be compatible with Windows 2000. Look for
an updated bios and or a controller driver.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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"Mike" wrote:
| Dave...
|
| Bad keystroke on my laptop... sorry about that. The machine refuses to
| boot from the CD, I get that message when it checks your hardware:
|
| Disk I/O error: status=00001000
| NT detect failed
|
| For kicks, I took the drive over to another machine and installed W2K on
| it just to the point where I haven't installed drivers or started
| networking. So my drive is fine, my memory is fine, I removed all PCI
| cards, and then I tried hooking up the same drive to the problem PC and
| I get the same error, and of course... it won't boot regardless of the
| bios setup for boot sequence.
|
| Mike


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