OK, what am I doing wrong? I've created the 4 startup disks. I load all 4 discs and it copies the winnt folder to the HD. I can see it when I navigate around using an old boot disk to see if it was at least accessible. The error I get occurs when the machine restarts for the first time. It says, " A disk read error occurred" Press ctrl-a-del to restart" I have tried different booting sequences in the BIOS. I've also tried Fat and NTFS. The drive is master and it's on the same IDE as a cdrom which is slave. I put the drive on another machine, and it went so far as to get to the windows splash screen and then gave me a stop error code. I've done a scandisk and checked for viruses. This is a Pentium 233 with a 40 gig drive. Thanks for any help and feel free to ask any questions that you might have.
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trouble installing 2000
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violaboy,
I have to go with the CD-ROM reader being either faulty, or the CD disk is dirty/scratched, or something like that. The "read" error comes from the installer's inability to read from the setup folder it creates on the hard drive.
Try this:
1.) Grab a Win98 startup disk, and copy xcopy32, xcopy32.mod, and smartdrv.exe, to the floppy. (These files can be found in the "c:\windows\command" directory", smartdrv, is in "c:\windows"
2.) Boot the machine with a Win98 boot disk, (assuming the c drive is FAT32, or FAT16), and choose to enable CD-ROM support.
3.) At the command prompt, type: "smartdrv 8092 8092", without the quotes, and hit enter.
4.) Make a directory on the c drive called "i386" for instance.
5.) Copy the contents of the "i386" folder on the Windows 2000 CD, to the i386 folder on the c drive, by issueing the following command:
xcopy32 d:\i386 c:\i386 /s /e
where "d:" is the letter of your CD-ROM drive.
6.) Once the files have copied, (there are quite a few!), run "winnt.exe /b" from the c:\i386 folder. Not only will it take less time, (hard drives are still a bit faster than CD-ROMS!), it will also ensure that the source, and target files are read, and written with the same device, your hard disk.
Not a perfect plan perhaps, but it will narrow down the variables, and at best, you'll get 2000 installed!
(You can delete the i386 folder after a successful setup)
Let Me Know!
Rich
prescot9@hotmail.com
Father, Geek, and MCP
I have to go with the CD-ROM reader being either faulty, or the CD disk is dirty/scratched, or something like that. The "read" error comes from the installer's inability to read from the setup folder it creates on the hard drive.
Try this:
1.) Grab a Win98 startup disk, and copy xcopy32, xcopy32.mod, and smartdrv.exe, to the floppy. (These files can be found in the "c:\windows\command" directory", smartdrv, is in "c:\windows"
2.) Boot the machine with a Win98 boot disk, (assuming the c drive is FAT32, or FAT16), and choose to enable CD-ROM support.
3.) At the command prompt, type: "smartdrv 8092 8092", without the quotes, and hit enter.
4.) Make a directory on the c drive called "i386" for instance.
5.) Copy the contents of the "i386" folder on the Windows 2000 CD, to the i386 folder on the c drive, by issueing the following command:
xcopy32 d:\i386 c:\i386 /s /e
where "d:" is the letter of your CD-ROM drive.
6.) Once the files have copied, (there are quite a few!), run "winnt.exe /b" from the c:\i386 folder. Not only will it take less time, (hard drives are still a bit faster than CD-ROMS!), it will also ensure that the source, and target files are read, and written with the same device, your hard disk.
Not a perfect plan perhaps, but it will narrow down the variables, and at best, you'll get 2000 installed!
(You can delete the i386 folder after a successful setup)
Let Me Know!
Rich
prescot9@hotmail.com
Father, Geek, and MCP
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I have got the same problem, except I am using XP porfessional...... strange.
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Please folloe the microsoft article #Q222996,"Disk Read Error Occurred" When Converting Boot Drive to NTFS
Change your HDD type to AUTO in CMOS,This should work.Jay this will resolve your issue with XP PRo
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Change your HDD type to AUTO in CMOS,This should work.Jay this will resolve your issue with XP PRo
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