Re: Installation Trouble Windows 2000 Pro, keeps looking for service pack 2

From: Ed Dranchak (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/30/04 

Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 07:47:09 -0700

It won't read my CD Drive, I have tried that, files are
all too large to put on a floopy, Any help for this? or do
I need to buy a new computer, I am totally stuck now...
Thanks for reponding and your help...
Ed
>-----Original Message-----
>AFAIK you can't do a repair install (aka in-place
upgrade, aka over-the-top
>install) with an integrated install CD-Rom. You might try
downloading SP2,
>extract the files, copy to a CD-Rom and try feeding it
this disk.
>
>--
>Regards,
>
>Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in
newsgroup.
>Microsoft Certified Professional
>Microsoft MVP [Windows]
>http://www.microsoft.com/protect
>
>
>"Ed Dranchak" wrote:
>| Please Help,
>| I was running Windows 2000 Pro with no problems, THEN, I
>| was encountering some errors, so I put in the Windows
2000
>| CD and was running the fix errors option on the CD and
>| when it was almost finished it was going through the
>| reboot stage and now it is caught in some kind of loop.
It
>| continues to just reboot and I cant do anything. It
comes
>| up to the point of asking me for the service pack 2 cd ,
>| which on my cd it says it include service pack 2.
>|
>| I put it in and nothing happens. the first file it is
>| looking for is called NT5inf.cat, i copied on from a
>| different computer and put on a floppy and installed it,
>| then it comes up looking for NT5.cat, too big for a
floppy
>| so I burned one from another computer, still wont take
it,
>| PLEASE HELP, it almost acts like it wont take any files
>| from my CD Drive.
>|
>| It also asks for the windows 2000 cd and when i put it
in,
>| it doesnt do anything. I have been running windows 2000
>| for over six months the that computer, PLEASE IS THERE
>| ANYTHING i CAN DO???????
>| my EMAIL IS ed.dranchak@verizon.net
>| Thanks
>|
>
>
>.
>

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