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By "flaky" power supply, I mean one that does not have a stable voltage or
is marginal for the CD drive. For example, when you get to the part about
installing the OS from the CD and it starts copying files from the CD to the
HD it may say, file not copied, abort/retry/cancel. Sometimes retry works
and sometimes not. If you get a lot of these errors, then the CD drive or
the powersupply to it is marginal, something on that order. The thing that
clued me in was that I had done two installations with this CD before so I
knew it did not have bad files. Even when I tried to repeat the process on
the new machine it was not consistant in the files that it said were not
copied properly. That told me the CD drive was incompatible with the CD or
the power to it was suspect. The vendor who sold me the hardware said I had
a bad CD, bull shit. So I took the drive out of a known to be working
machine and put it in the new machine and the install went smoothly. I did
finally get W2000 installed, and am waiting for a new supply to arrive.
Both the CD drive and power supply were made in China. CD drives can appear
to work, but may not track well, I put the suspect drive in another machine
and it does skip tracks on an audio disk.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Igor Kaplun" <ikaplun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "BobR" <bobrabcd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "OMEGA-LIST" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: Did I miss something? RESULTS
> Hello Bob
>
> Friend of mine told me exactly the same "trick" with Win98 and FDISK
> on floppy. But I have another computer with Win95 only. I do not have
> Win98.
>
> About Power Supply. I do not know Bob what it is "a flaky power
> supply". Probably that what I have with ENERMAX 431W.
>
> Val
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "BobR" <bobrabcd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "OMEGA-LIST" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 3:21 PM
> Subject: Re: Did I miss something? RESULTS
>
>
> > 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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