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Hello Bob
Friend of mine told me exactly the same "trick" with Win98 and FDISK
on floppy. But I have another computer with Win95 only. I do not have
Win98.
About Power Supply. I do not know Bob what it is "a flaky power
supply". Probably that what I have with ENERMAX 431W.
Val
----- Original Message -----
From: "BobR" <bobrabcd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "OMEGA-LIST" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: Did I miss something? RESULTS
> I ran into a similar experience last weekend. The solution was to
take a
> Win98 startup floppy(set bios to boot on floppy) and use FDISK and
select
> Yes to make one large FAT32 partition. Then I used FORMAT C: to
format the
> drive. Then I used the Windows 2000 CD to install the OS. Then
partition
> the drive if you want to. One problem you might be having with the
new
> machine is the CD drive reads the W2000 CD intermittantly. I had
that
> problem and it drove me crazy until I swapped the CD drive with one
from a
> machine that was working and I knew had read the W2000 CD before.
There is
> a little problem with silver CD's and Gold CD's and the laser in CD
drives.
> Your new machine may also have a flaky power supply like mine did.
>
> bobr
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Igor Kaplun" <ikaplun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Craig" <craigbud@xxxxxxxxxxx>; "Ray Gurke" <Ray@xxxxxxxxx>;
"Free"
> <free@xxxxxxxx>; <rjbiii@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "OMEGA-LIST"
> <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 11:59 AM
> Subject: Re: Did I miss something? RESULTS
>
>
> > Hello Free, Mark, Ray, Craig, Sentinel, List -
> >
> > I combine and HERE is THE RESULTS.
> > I am truly appreciating your involvement in trying to resolve my
HD
> > problem with formatting.
> >
> > I left on my new computer that I put from new parts, in a way Mark
> > Brown did, only
> > 1. Unformatted 60Gb HD that connected to IDE0
> > 2. Plextor CD ROM that connected to IDE1 and
> > 3. Floppy 1.44 Drive.
> > I have Original Win2k on one CD, SP2.
> >
> > Here what I did:
> > Turn on computer.
> > When BIOS boot started, I inserted Win2k into CD-ROM.
> > When computer said << press any key to boot CD-ROM >> I pressed
> > <enter> key.
> > Win2k session started.
> >
> > When Win2k loaded it displayed - recognized two FAT32 partitions
C:
> > and D:, each 2048-Mb and unformatted empty space of HD.
> > It asked where do I want to set OS.
> > I pointed to 2Gb partition C:.
> > It asked if I want to format that C: I said NO leave existing
format.
> > Win2k Setup failed. Reason disk damaged ...
> >
> > I did the same with D:. However, choose new format NTFS.
> > Result the same. Win2k Setup failed. Reason disk damaged ...
> >
> > Then I created 2Gb new partition E:. Choose format NTFS.
> > Result the same. Win2k Setup failed. Reason disk damaged ...
> >
> > Then I created 1Gb partition F:. Choose format NTFS.
> > Result the same. Win2k Setup failed. Reason disk damaged ...
> > I ended Win2k session.
> > All that was at the same Win2k session.
> > NO RESULTS ACHIEVED.
> >
> > What did I miss?
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Val
> >
>
>
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