Installing 2k issues

[tjwenger]

At the end of basic install, (just after it loads files for setup, still blue screen) it hangs when it says "Starting windows 2000".. and I cant figure it out?!?!? Driving me up a wall, HELP!

 

[yazz]

Did you have any other operating systems installed before this? do you have more than one harddrive? i would take out any other cards like network or audio in the system.

 

[tjwenger]

No, I did pull all the cards, but its now saying both HDD are corrpt, but there brand new, and I recently low level formatted them...

 

[cirrus1]

Are you by any chance overclocking your FSB? W2K is rather sensitive to that, and it could possibly NOT install even if other OS' like Linux and Win 98 works.

I've had this problem with my P2B-F (which has a rather low FSB/PCI ratio) where I overclocked my bus to 133 Mhz...afair it resulted in a the PCI running at 46 or such....this worked fine when I ran Windows 98, but when I upgraded the machine to W2K, it just wouldn't install....excactly the same symptoms as the ones you are having now....

Even if you aren't overclocking, try to bump it down a little anyways

 

[tjwenger]

No overclocking, everythings default,s nothing on the drives b4, but windows.. I dunno whats up, it says the HDD are damaged, but there brand new, So I dunno what up.

 

[stash]

Is the harddrive on an ATA controller, or a IDE RAID controller?

If so, you need to hit F6 at the beginning of the install and install your mass storage drivers.

 

[SEIX]

what HDD are you using? did you format the HDD with a utility disk that came with the hard drive or did you use third-party software like partition magic? A low level format is usaully done by the hdd manufacturer to set the sectors & etc,..on the disk. Some hdd manufacturer's like Maxtor allow you to perform a low level format but if you don't know what your doing you can screw up your drive. I hope you haven't done so, and only formatted your drive with a regular formatting utility. I talk too much...lol, Last ?tion, did you boot to the win2k cd/delete ur 1st partition/format it in NTFS?

 

[tjwenger]

yes I hit f6, Western Digital are th edrives, a 40GB, and a 20 GB, and im using Data lifelagaurd lowlevel for mat tools, and as for the 1st partition, there brand new drives, they dont have a 1st partition...