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albamac

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March 21st, 2007 13:00

Windows 2000 installation

I (stupidly) decided to upgrade my Inspirion 7500 running 98SE to Windows 2000. The setup appears to go smoothly, completing all the steps. The problem is that when it completes the installation and restarts it re-installs Windows 2000 again. It has essentially been doing this for 2 days. When I force the computer to shut down and restart it calls for the Windows 2000 setup disk and re-installs. Has anyone else seen this? Does anyone have a solution? Thanks

mombodog

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March 21st, 2007 17:00

What service pack level is the 2K cd you used?
 
Was this a clean install, not an upgrade?
 
Go into the bios and set the hard drive as first boot device.


Message Edited by mombodog on 03-21-2007 01:59 PM

albamac

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March 22nd, 2007 11:00

I initially used W2K + SP2, when that didn't work I tried Windows 2000 Professional Including Service Pack 1. This was an upgrade. I set the hard drive as first boot device, it unfortunately made no difference. Nick

mombodog

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March 22nd, 2007 13:00

I suggest slipstreaming SP4 into that SP1 disc, then try installing
 

Rijko

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March 23rd, 2007 23:00

i advise to take a look at c:\boot.ini.
 
This file holds the startup options for Windows 2000.
 
A typical boot.ini can hold 1 or more options.
The 'default' line tells what to start.
Kind of the autoexec.bat that loads windows.
Yours should look a bit like this :
 
[boot loader]
timeout=3
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Recovery Console" /cmdcons
 
But in your case, after trying to upgrade with SP2 and later with a regular cd, extra entries could have been left there.
Like an entry that starts the SP2 setup again and again since you did not finish it.
 
I suspect your harddisk is still FAT after an inplace upgrade ?
If you use a bootdisk you can simply copy the boot.ini to that floppy and post it back here.
I can help you with the modofications if you want.

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