Problems with Windows 2000 Professional

[Malaci]

Hello,

I am trying to install Windows 2000 Pro on my computer.The hard drive it blank and I have formatted it.I get to setup and I get to the point where it says "Setup is done with this part of installing Windows 2000 Professional. If there is a floppy disk in your A: drive;remove it. Your computer will now reboot,after reboot setup will continue." My computer restarts but all I see is a flashing cursor and nothing happens.If anyone knows how to help me,please do.

Andy

 

[electronicsfreak]

What are your hardware specs?

 

[theo1881]

have you checked boot order in the bios ?

 

[Malaci]

Yes I have put the order in the order needed.I have an intel celeron,516mb of RAM,and a 80gb hard drive.

 

[electronicsfreak]

When you are installing it, did you have an errors with any files or let it skip any of them?

 

[Malaci]

no,I skipped nothing

 

[Mthales]

electronicsfreak - did you get anywhere with this problem?

If you are still in the same situation are you removing any drives from the PC at the restart? And you said the boot order was in the order needed but what exactly is that?

M

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[electronicsfreak]

mthales im not the one with the problem

As for malaci, might try a bios update. Go to the manufacturers site of the board and find the newest version of bios and download and flash it. See if that helps.

 

[rodrunner79]

A cursor blinking, and nothing happens, hmmmmmm.... It can't be the NTLDR, it would give you a message if that was missing. Have you tried pressing F8 after reboot?

 

[Malaci]

yeah,nothing happens....just a blinking cursor

 

[wolluf]

What's been installed on this machine before?

Have you run diagnostic on hard drive to see its sound?

What motherboard? I had an issue trying to install XP on client's pC (previously running ME). Spec was fine, and install got further than yours - ie, it started second part, but then it 'lost' the hard drive. So concluded must be non-standard (as far as windows xp concerned) IDE controlller - couldn't find any drivers, had to put ME back on.

 

[Malaci]

it has had 2000 on it before then I put 98 back on it.Now I got a bigger hard drive and this is happening

 

[wolluf]

Definitely run diagnostic. If machine is ok with 2k, then new drive will make no difference. Presuming machine isn't too old to see the whole 80GB drive (ie, bios detects drive as 80GB - machines pre-99 ish have 32GB max HD size restriction).

PS. Obvious thing I forgot - is the bios virus detection turned on? If it is, turn it off, and try again.