Loading Problem

[ownuridea]

I bought a new hard drive for my laptop, and as a first step broke out the media to install OS. Everything runs fine - reformat to NTFS and load Windows 2000 - until system tells me it's going to restart the computer. At that point, I get a message about disk failure and am instructed to press ctl-alt-delete.

Just to check, I loaded Linux. Although I don't understand this OS, it loads and runs no problem. This eliminates the new drive as a suspect.

I don't have a boot floppy (don't remember if I ever did); just booting from CD.

 

[ownuridea]

Well, a solution was found - but not understood. I formated this 20 gb drive to FAT32 and everything works fine. But I'm almost positive the existing 4 gb drive was formatted NTFS.

Big mystery -- ??

 

[ownuridea]

No! Come to think of it, the first system was an upgrade from 98. Maybe the BIOS doesn't support NTFS..??

Anyway, all is now fine.