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by ballyb

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I have formatted a HD,and am trying to load win 2000 (full edition). This is an older P.133mhz, 40mb ram, a 4 gig HD (1200 and 2600 partitions). The CD is recognized as F: and win 2000 seemed to be loading for c. 2 hours! However, on reboot, it tells me "operating system not found". When I do a "dir" on C:, which I can see from booting to a floppy, it tells me the directory has:

$LDR$ 229,264
$WIN_NT$ ~BT

$WIN_NT$ ~LS

NTDETECT 34,468
NTLDR 214,416
TXTSETUP 356,925

Can I load win 2000, from here? What is the next step?

Anyone any ideas? Am I missing something very simple here? Do I need to load DOS, first? I am trying to avoid loading earlier versions of windows...

Any help would be appreciated...

DC
ballyb@i-2000.com

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by quahsays

Can't be sure, but I think a 1.2 Gig partition is not sufficient for installing W2k, I'm sure you would have no problem if you configure to just one 4 Gig partition.
I had encounter similar problems when I tried partitions as yours, but once I switched to the entire partition, the problem somehow is gone.
You can try, as I can't be certain.

by ballyb

Thanks for your help, "quahst", but 1.2 gig is definitely enough space for win 2000.

by ballyb

Thanks for your help, "quahst", but 1.2 gig is definitely enough space for win 2000.

by mckaytech

I had a similar problem on a Win2k install where the problem turned out to be that the hard drive controller and BIOS were not supported by Windows2000. Given the age of the hardware, I would check the Hardware Compatibility List for each of the components with particular attention to the drive components and BIOS. There is a software tool you can download from Microsoft that will test your hardware for compatibility.

That having been said, the published minimums for Windows2000 are a Pentium-133, 64meg of RAM and a 2gb hard drive with 650meg free. Microsoft rarely overstates the hardware requirements so I'm guessing these are pretty close to the barebones minimums.

paul

by ballyb

T/you Paul; I suspected that was the problem! Who could foresee win 2000, back in 94/95 when this PC was developed? In the end, I went the long way - loaded DOS, Wins and then wins 2000.
It seems to work fine, for now...

DC

by donq

Wonderful: Thanks for leaving your comments posted for us mere mortals to review. Couldn't you have just loaded 95 first using it's 3-1/2" floppy to fine the CD? Are you sure you had a full installation, and not the full version upgrade which is in most stores?

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