Re: Unable to install Windows 2003

Dear Pegasus,

I have already done the steps 1 and 2 this afternoon but haven't formatted
the HD.

I will follow your other steps.

Your advice is much appreciated and I may need your help if it still doesn't
work.

Thanks you again.

John

"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You chose to give the dictionary definition of "no joy", which
is fine, and chose not to say if you could ever boot up with
some other boot CD, which is disappointing. It helps if you supply
as much information as possible and answer ALL questions.

With Win2000 there is a way to make a set of boot CDs
that you can use to install Windows. You would have to
search Google to find out how to make them. Another
somewhat awkward way goes like this:
1. Boot the machine with a Win98 boot disk from www.bootdisk.com
(here we go again, mainly because either your CD is
unbootable or because your BIOS does not support
booting from a CD).
2. Run fdisk and format to create a primary active FAT32
partition of sufficient size.
3. Run smartdrv.exe (yes, it is on this boot disk!)
4. Run D:\i386\winnt to commence the installation. D: is
your CD drive letter.
5. Convert the partition to NTFS when finished.

"John" <John@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Dear Pegasus,

According to Oxford Dictionary
[U] (BrE, informal) (in questions and negative sentences) success or
satisfaction.

It boots up with Windows 2000 CD but not with the Windows 2003 CD. When
it
boot up, we get a black screen & don't proceed.

Your advice is sought.

John


"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You wrote ". . . there is no joy". This is a colloquial expression
that means very little. I suggest you write exactly what happens
when you boot the machine with your Windows CD. You
should also state if you can boot your machine with any other
bootable CD.

"John" <John@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yes, I have tried but do not work as you mentioned.

John

"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You do not need to create such a CD - every original
MS Windows CD is bootable. Did you try yours?


"John" <John@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Dear Pegasus,

Would it be possible to give me the URL that shows me how to create
the
bootable CD for installation of Windows 2003 ?

John

"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"John" <John@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

I attempt to install Windows 2003 with BIOS Setting with start
with
CD
but
there is no joy.

According to the suggestion by someone in the newsgroup, I boot
up
the
Server with Windows 98 FD downloaded from bootdisk.com.

When I boot it up, when I go to i386, run winnt.exe, it says
that
smartdrv.exe is not running. However, I am not able to find the
smartdrive
in the FD. Is there any suggestion ?

Thanks



Why on earth would you want to boot your server with a Win98
bood disk? Every Windows OS comes with a self-booting
installation CD and Windows 2003 is no exception!
















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