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Couldn't boot up, formatted installed win2k, still can't....
I'm trying to get my sister's computer working
Computer specs:
Custom built, local computer shop
600 PIII
384MB
Maxtor 33073H 30GB 5400rpm
mobo model M6TZF, from what I've fround it's a Biostar, but can't find much about it
cheapo CDRW
250W PS
originally had WinME, crashed late last year some time, brought to a computer guy and supposedly got it fixed and installed the XP upgrade
Suddenly got the "Invalid System Disk" error at boot up. Checked all drives, no floppy in, no CD in, boot order was floppy, CD, HDD. Tried quite a few times, same thing. Booted to floppy startup disk and I could browse around in DOS. Well my sister was kinda fed up with XP anyway and wanted me to wipe it out and install Win2k. No problem, except there was some stuff on there that needed to be saved. Figured no problem, I have a brand new HDD I just installed in my computer (just as a storage drive, WD 80gig) but I did install Win2k on it for the hell of it and was booting off of it instead of my main drive. I took my 2nd drive and installed it in her computer, secondary IDE port, master. Her HDD on primary master w/cd as slave. Yes, all jumpers correct. I was gonna copy the stuff over in DOS. It would not read my drive. Tried my drive alone, as the boot drive. It would start booting up, but hang up at the "Windows 2000 Professional - Built on NT Technology" screen, keyboard locked up. Hmmm....figured maybe since I installed that while it was in my comp, there was a hardware issue or something.
So, I took both those drives and installed in my computer. Booted to my main drive. All drives were listed in MY COMPUTER, but the messed up one couldn't be accessed. Booted to DOS, could acces them all there. BTW, by this time I had formatted my 2nd drive, the WD one just so I had a full, clean drive. Finally got the stuff I needed copied over from her drive to my storage drive. "Great, making progress". Reinstalled the drive in her computer. Primary master with CD on secondary master. Yes, jumpers and cables correct. Booted to floppy, ran fdisk, redid the partition, formatted. Booted to the Win2k CD, started the install. Chose to format to NTFS. Stared copying files. Noticed through all this it's taking a long time to copy the files, like 1 hour or so. It never took this long on my 550 PIII system. I've done this same install on a couple 400mhz Celeron, 128MB systems and it was way faster. Finally finished, rebooted to start Win. for the first time. Going great....boom. Got stuck on the same Win2k screen that my drive did. Again, keyboard locked, inactive. Got frustrated. Redid the whole fdisk, format, install thing again. Same thing, very slow copying files, get's stuck at startup. I don't know what to do next. She really can't pay someone to fix this right now and I sure can't pay for it.
Anyone have any ideas of what could possibly be the problem? What should be my next step to check?
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