Blue Screen on Windows 2000 Setup

Question

I'm trying to setup windows 2000 on an I8600. Booting off the CD, I get to the point where it says 'Setup is starting Windows 2000' It hangs there for about 15-20 seconds and then....... Blue Screen 'Unknown Hard Error' \SystemRoot\System32
tdll.dll etc... Does anyone know if there is any additional drivers that needed immediately for win2k to startup on these machines? (ie using F6 when fist loading from CD)   Thanks...

bacillus · Answer

you shouldn't need to use F6 as you don't have scsi or raid drivers to install. is your cd clean & scratchfree?

seto_kaiba · Answer

I think its best to reformat your HDD there. Looks like the setup is accessing a corrupt file in your HDD, causing a blue screen to come on. Peace!

Matt_Lamb · Answer

I can't even get to the format screen, doesn't make it that far, as well - I've tried 3 different CD's

Matt_Lamb · Answer

Everything checks out, it still has the Windows XP Pro on it so I can still boot to it. Everything checks out. I would prefer to keep it XP but have a special app the won't run on XP....

naqoyqatsi · Answer

try to run diags on the hardware. if your having a hard time going to setup, it might be a hard drive problem.

mrdat · Answer

use a Bootable FD with FDISK on it to delete the partition. http://ftp.dell.com/utility/cdenab.exe

seto_kaiba · Answer

Yes, use a separate floppy or maybe a bootable CD (non-XP) and format the HDD from there.

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