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Are you sure that you are setting the bios to boot floppy or cd first, then HD?<br />

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Are you sure that you are setting the bios to boot floppy or cd first, then HD?


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The HD cable connection is correct ? The BIOS detected the HD (Primary or Slave) ? How about CDRom and Floppy are also working (cabling) as normal ?<br />
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The HD cable connection is correct ? The BIOS detected the HD (Primary or Slave) ? How about CDRom and Floppy are also working (cabling) as normal ?





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Sounds like the boot disk is bad. &nbsp;Try to get one from someone else that has win2000 or try to download a boot disk, I have seen them before but don't know of any download sites. &nbsp;Just run a search<br />

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Sounds like the boot disk is bad.  Try to get one from someone else that has win2000 or try to download a boot disk, I have seen them before but don't know of any download sites.  Just run a search


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Does it actually read the floppy drive? If not, reset the BIOS
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Does it actually read the floppy drive? If not, reset the BIOS

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replace your cdrom ..... <br />
believe me it will solve your problem 
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replace your cdrom .....
believe me it will solve your problem

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Ok, so I am working on freshly installing win2000 to a clean, new hd. &nbsp;I have 4 boot disks made from the CDrom, and the cdrom as well. &nbsp;I tell bios to boot from cd.... no dice. &nbsp;It's possible that it isn't bootable. &nbsp;Fine. &nbsp;I tell bios boot from floppy... &nbsp; I get &quot;Disk I/O error: Status = 00001000NTDETECT failed.&quot; &nbsp;I'm stumped. &nbsp;Help???
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Ok, so I am working on freshly installing win2000 to a clean, new hd.  I have 4 boot disks made from the CDrom, and the cdrom as well.  I tell bios to boot from cd.... no dice.  It's possible that it isn't bootable.  Fine.  I tell bios boot from floppy...   I get "Disk I/O error: Status = 00001000NTDETECT failed."  I'm stumped.  Help???

win2000 install difficulties

Windows 2000 is an operating system for use on both client and server computers. It is the successor to Windows NT 4.0, and is the last version of Microsoft Windows to display the "Windows NT" designation. Four editions of Windows 2000 were released (Professional, Server, Advanced Server, and Datacenter Server) that shared a core set of features, including many system utilities such as the Microsoft Management Console. All versions of the operating system support NTFS 3.0, Encrypting File System, as well as basic and dynamic disk storage. The Windows 2000 Server family includes support for Active Directory services, Distributed File System and fault-redundant storage volumes.