Re: Disk IO Status 0000AA00

To do a clean install, either boot the Windows 2000 install CD-Rom or setup disks. The set of four install disks can be created from your Windows 2000 CD-Rom; change to the \bootdisk directory on the CD-Rom and execute makeboot.exe (from dos) or makebt32.exe (from 32 bit) and follow the prompts.

(Note: If your drive controller is not natively supported then you'll want to boot the Windows 2000 install CD-Rom. Then *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 controller in drive "A")

Setup inspects your computer's hardware configuration and then begins to install the Setup and driver files. When the Windows 2000 Professional screen appears, press ENTER to set up Windows 2000 Professional.

Read the license agreement, and then press the F8 key to accept the terms of the license agreement and continue the installation.

When the Windows 2000 Professional Setup screen appears, all the existing partitions and the unpartitioned spaces are listed for each physical hard disk. Use the ARROW keys to select the partitions Press D to delete an existing partition, If you press D to delete an existing partition, you must then press L (or press ENTER, and then press L if it is the System partition) to confirm that you want to delete the partition. Repeat this step for each of the existing partitions When all the partitions are deleted press F3 to exit setup, (to avoid unexpected drive letter assignments with your new install) then restart the pc then when you get to this point in setup again select the unpartitioned space, and then press C to create a new partition and specify the size (if required). Windows will by default use all available space.

Be sure to apply SP4 and these two below to your new install before connecting to any network. Internet included. (sasser, msblast)
http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/6/A/E6A04295-D2A8-40D0-A0C5-241BFECD095E/W2KSP4_EN.EXE
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-043.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-049.mspx

Then

Rollup 1 for Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?amp;displaylang=en&familyid=B54730CF-8850-4531-B52B-BF28B324C662&displaylang=en



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"John Meehan" wrote:

Hi. I've got a weird one. I've tried googling it but I can't find any
references.

Here's the background:
a while back, my hard drive died. I got a new 300 GB IDE drive, and as an
experiment, before I reinstalled Win2K, tried some Linux distros. (Ubuntu
7.10 and Zen Walk 4 to be specific). One used GRUB, the other LILO, but the
Linux installs went well, and things worked fine. After all the
experimentation, I removed all the partitions, and I tried to go back and
reinstall Win2k from my cdrom.

The CD boots fine, and it loads all the necessary drivers, but instead of
reaching the first screen (install/repair/etc.) it freezes with a "Disk I/O:
Status: 0000AA00" message. Ctrl-Alt-Del won't reboot the computer, and I have
to do a hard power cycle to get out.

Since the disk didn't have any partitions, I thought it might be an MBR
issue. So I tried to restore it using Norton Ghost (gdisk /mbr). That didn't
work and I still get the same (AA00) error.

Any clues as to what the problem and fix is?
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Information.

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