Installation of Windows 2000 major problem ...

[TheVrolok]

ok, time leading up to this problem..

Installed 2k, had a drive letter problem, followed some instructions in MS' knowledge base.. ended up fdisking the mbr.. that shouldn't be a problem, should it?

Anyway... now I've decided to just reformat the drive and start over.. So I formatted the entire 120 gb and now when I try to install 2k, via the bootdisks, I get a "Disk I/O error: Status = 000080E1" or something very similar.. then the disks continue to copy and seemingly boot from .. then, at the end of the bootdisk loading processes, where the licensing agreement for 2000 would normally pop up, I get that same Disk I/O error line, and then it BSODs to "STOP: Unexpected Kernel Mode Trap" ... anyone know anything I can do to get this working again so I can install 2k? Thanks in advance

 

[Panther505]

Memory? How much? What filesystem is the 120? Hopefully NTFS. Are you installing on a RAID controller? Have you tried rebuilding the boot disks? or booting from the CD?

 

[TheVrolok]

Originally posted by: Panther505
Memory? How much? What filesystem is the 120? Hopefully NTFS. Are you installing on a RAID controller? Have you tried rebuilding the boot disks? or booting from the CD?

Memory: 1.5 GB PC2700 DDR.
Filesystem: was FAT32 the most recent time I tried to install, was NTFS the time before.
RAID: No.
Rebuilding: No, I'll try that now.
Booting from CD: I've never been able to, it's an OEM CD I bought with a license at a comp show years ago. (Yeah, probably shouldn't have done that)

 

[DSE]

Originally posted by: TheVrolok

Originally posted by: Panther505
Memory? How much? What filesystem is the 120? Hopefully NTFS. Are you installing on a RAID controller? Have you tried rebuilding the boot disks? or booting from the CD?

Memory: 1.5 GB PC2700 DDR.
Filesystem: was FAT32 the most recent time I tried to install, was NTFS the time before.
RAID: No.
Rebuilding: No, I'll try that now.
Booting from CD: I've never been able to, it's an OEM CD I bought with a license at a comp show years ago. (Yeah, probably shouldn't have done that)

If you've got another system running, you can create a bootable CD (search google for windows 2000 bootable CD). You could also try debugging that drive. I don't trust fdisk /mbr anymore on drives that'll run NTFS.

 

[TheVrolok]

Think fdisking the mbr on an NTFS drive did it? Lemme let you all know what I have tried since I started...

Used a 98se bootdisk to bootup and run fdisk.. I try to run fdisk and I get "Error reading fixed disk."

Pulled the HDD out, put it in as a slave on this computer, formatted it straight up NTFS, moved it back over, problem not fixed.

Booted up with the Slackware 9 install disks to use cfdisk on /dev/hda (the 120 gb drive), and that worked just fine, deleted all partitions, recreated a complete and bootable Win 95 FAT32 (LBA) primary partition and that still didn't fix the problem.

Looking for the bootable Win2k CD now

 

[SpeedFreak03]

Bootable Win2K cd

 

[Panther505]

Additionally MS does not support FAT32 above 32GB... I KNOW that you can get it but the implementation that they are using is not that great and it is best to stay away from it. If you want the drive space to be contiguous then NTFS is the way to go. If you need Fat 32 then you will be stuck with multiple partitions / drives.

EDIT- creating it under linux as an existing LBA Win95 bootable partition may be part of the issue.