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Win2000 install produces Disk Read Error

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by shanghai sam

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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 hinrgman

I have had the same problem with some of our older desktop machines. W2K just refuses to install. Did you try to install W2K with FAT32 instead of NTFS? One problem I found is that some 3rd party software to partition the HD caused the same problem you describe. W98 would install fine but W2K would not. I had to use a Microsoft Product ie. FDISK. One machine I had still is running 98 because W2k would not install.

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