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Win2000 install produces Disk Read Error

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by bravelittletoaster 1 view

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Installing a fresh copy of Win2000 on a Gateway P166 with 96mb RAM (quit snickering) I'm installing a new IBM 40gb ATA 100 RPM 7200 RPM drive in system. BIOS recognises the drive properly and win98 installs and boots fine. However upgrading to win2k or installing win2k from the diskettes seems to go fine until the first reboot. Then, after proper bios recognition I get "A disk read error has occured / Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart" each boot after it.

I suspect it might be a NTFS issue.

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by eckostar

By any chance have you tried a low level format? or just straight out debugging the new drive? I had the exact same problem with the machine i am running now, and after doing a debug, format, and fdisk, i didnt have any problems. The problem may however be from using just a win2k upgrade ( if that is what you are using) If you do have the full version rather than upgrade, try installing it to another drive and seeing how that goes

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