chrisleeuk
Junior Member
I am upgrading a PC for someone with the following new and existing hardware:
GIGABITE Motherboard NEW
AMD K7 1GHZ NEW
256 MB PC100 NEW
CDROM Drive EXISTING IDE2 Slave
CD Writer EXISTING IDE2 Master
Floppy Drive EXISTING
4GB Hard Drive EXISTING IDE1
Nvidia 32bit Graphics card NEW AGP
Modem EXISTING PCI
Sound Card EXISTING ISA
Here is the problem: -
(1) I boot from the Windows 2000 CD-ROM.
(2) I format the drive as NTFS
(3) The files begin to install.
However from time to time I get an error message saying a file cannot be copied. If I press Enter it appears to copy OK.
(4) When the PC reboots I get a missing file error.
If I try re-installing I get the same sort of errors but not always on the same files.
Things I have already tried....
(1) Borrowed second Windows 2000 CD but get the same result.
(2) Tried installing Windows 2000 from the CD-ROM drive and the CD Writer.
I get the same result with the above.
(3) Swapped the IDE cable for another (no different).
(4) Disabled RAM shadowing in BIOS.
(5) Disconnected one of the CD-ROM drives so I have only one primary drive.
(6) As a last resort I tried installing Windows 98 from a floppy disk. This will install Windows 98 ok but then no CD ROM drives are recognised. I can copy the real mode drivers to the hard drive but then they stop working (even when they work from the floppy disk!)
(7) Tried again but it is a different set of files each time.
GIGABITE Motherboard NEW
AMD K7 1GHZ NEW
256 MB PC100 NEW
CDROM Drive EXISTING IDE2 Slave
CD Writer EXISTING IDE2 Master
Floppy Drive EXISTING
4GB Hard Drive EXISTING IDE1
Nvidia 32bit Graphics card NEW AGP
Modem EXISTING PCI
Sound Card EXISTING ISA
Here is the problem: -
(1) I boot from the Windows 2000 CD-ROM.
(2) I format the drive as NTFS
(3) The files begin to install.
However from time to time I get an error message saying a file cannot be copied. If I press Enter it appears to copy OK.
(4) When the PC reboots I get a missing file error.
If I try re-installing I get the same sort of errors but not always on the same files.
Things I have already tried....
(1) Borrowed second Windows 2000 CD but get the same result.
(2) Tried installing Windows 2000 from the CD-ROM drive and the CD Writer.
I get the same result with the above.
(3) Swapped the IDE cable for another (no different).
(4) Disabled RAM shadowing in BIOS.
(5) Disconnected one of the CD-ROM drives so I have only one primary drive.
(6) As a last resort I tried installing Windows 98 from a floppy disk. This will install Windows 98 ok but then no CD ROM drives are recognised. I can copy the real mode drivers to the hard drive but then they stop working (even when they work from the floppy disk!)
(7) Tried again but it is a different set of files each time.
