Win2k takes about 5 min to boot??? Any ideas?

[jutetrea]

At the 2k splash screen the status bar gets about halfway along then stops for about 3-5 minutes, then continues to boot normally.

No warnings or errors in the event viewer, once it boots its like nothing happened.

Situation: WinME computer was having problems booting, network issues, actually all sorts of random crud. Usually when a problem is going to take over 3-4 hours to troubleshoot I just say f....disk it.

Possible symptoms of hard drive issues, and since I wanted to upgrade the storage on it anyway, I picked up a new 120gb drive. Original drive was 20gb.

When booting with the 2k cd it kept giving me boot disk errors, no OS found. with both the old and the new disk.

Booting with floppy caused no probs.

took the drives out, put em in anothe machine, backed up the old data, fdisked/formatted em, tried again. Same result.

put em back in the other machine, installed 98 on the 20gb disk, and 2k on the 120 disk.

Booted up in the problem machine with no issues with both disks.

my question: Any idea why it wouldn't play nice with the install from either disk or CD?

Also, it now hangs on boot with win2k running on the 120gb drive but no other issue.

Thanks for any replies,
JT

 

[darranagl]

Suggestion for first question (3-4minute bootup time): Do you have a network card in the PC? If so check it has an IP address set manually. Win2k may be trying to get an IP address from DHCP (set by default), this can take some time before it gives up.

Suggestion for question 2: In the Bios of the problem PC does it find the hard drives? - is the disk type set to Auto?


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[jutetrea]

Network card receives an IP address relatively easily (very small network off the router - 3 comps). Did not try to hardcoat an address because it did receive one so quickly... but will try.

Bios was initially set to user (for the original hard drive), and still had issues installing win2k.
set it to auto and it had all sorts of problems trying to find either hard drive.

Put in the original drive, set it back to user with the original settings (which I luckily wrote down) and still no luck. Once 2k was loaded on the new drive I kept it at the same user settings and it had no problem booting up.