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I ran into a similar experience last weekend. The solution was to take a
Win98 startup floppy(set bios to boot on floppy) and use FDISK and select
Yes to make one large FAT32 partition. Then I used FORMAT C: to format the
drive. Then I used the Windows 2000 CD to install the OS. Then partition
the drive if you want to. One problem you might be having with the new
machine is the CD drive reads the W2000 CD intermittantly. I had that
problem and it drove me crazy until I swapped the CD drive with one from a
machine that was working and I knew had read the W2000 CD before. There is
a little problem with silver CD's and Gold CD's and the laser in CD drives.
Your new machine may also have a flaky power supply like mine did.
bobr
----- Original Message -----
From: "Igor Kaplun" <ikaplun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Craig" <craigbud@xxxxxxxxxxx>; "Ray Gurke" <Ray@xxxxxxxxx>; "Free"
<free@xxxxxxxx>; <rjbiii@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "OMEGA-LIST"
<omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: Did I miss something? RESULTS
> Hello Free, Mark, Ray, Craig, Sentinel, List -
>
> I combine and HERE is THE RESULTS.
> I am truly appreciating your involvement in trying to resolve my HD
> problem with formatting.
>
> I left on my new computer that I put from new parts, in a way Mark
> Brown did, only
> 1. Unformatted 60Gb HD that connected to IDE0
> 2. Plextor CD ROM that connected to IDE1 and
> 3. Floppy 1.44 Drive.
> I have Original Win2k on one CD, SP2.
>
> Here what I did:
> Turn on computer.
> When BIOS boot started, I inserted Win2k into CD-ROM.
> When computer said << press any key to boot CD-ROM >> I pressed
> <enter> key.
> Win2k session started.
>
> When Win2k loaded it displayed - recognized two FAT32 partitions C:
> and D:, each 2048-Mb and unformatted empty space of HD.
> It asked where do I want to set OS.
> I pointed to 2Gb partition C:.
> It asked if I want to format that C: I said NO leave existing format.
> Win2k Setup failed. Reason disk damaged ...
>
> I did the same with D:. However, choose new format NTFS.
> Result the same. Win2k Setup failed. Reason disk damaged ...
>
> Then I created 2Gb new partition E:. Choose format NTFS.
> Result the same. Win2k Setup failed. Reason disk damaged ...
>
> Then I created 1Gb partition F:. Choose format NTFS.
> Result the same. Win2k Setup failed. Reason disk damaged ...
> I ended Win2k session.
> All that was at the same Win2k session.
> NO RESULTS ACHIEVED.
>
> What did I miss?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Val
>
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