re: Problem with O/S CD booting
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 11:37 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DEX
(11702 messages posted)
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Something you are doing is not right.. :)
The win2k cd will over ride anything on the HD or the machine..that's to say you
should not get a error like NTDETECT FAILED,,, uNLESS the cd is a bad copy..
It's like booting with a 3 1/2" boot disk in a way but the boot files are on the
cd disk...it will make a ram drive for all it's files then move them to the C: once
it reads the HD and sees the fat table is setup right...
1st. make sure your BIOS is set right ,,boot order CDROM;,C:,A; once your sure,
try it one more time..
You can always use the win2k cd and remove the 1st win2k install and then let win2k
reformat the HD and then reinstall....
It will put down all new system files like the NTDETECT,ntfs.sys, plus all the others..
It sounds like win2k is reading the 1st install and giving you the error calls...
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On Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 10:44 am, macy wrote:
>Thanks for the suggestion DEX, already tried that, I get 'NTDETECT failed press
any
>key to continue' as soon as CD is read. Yesterday, the CD copied all the files on
>the CD then just before setup starts, I get 'file ntfs.sys is corrupted, press any
>key'....stuck in limbo! there's no virus/spyware anywhere, I scanned twice with
NOD32
>and all is OK. W2K works fine including CD read/write....don't want to throw a working
>HD away...yet. Can't believe this is an unsolvable unique problem...I now do a quick
>prayer before I switch the machine on.....amen!
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