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dave17
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17th Oct 03 at 12:28   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

right, tryin 2 finally sort out my old pc 2 give to my bro. its a pII 400mhz (:lol. it was originally running win98 but i have just downloaded 2000pro of my mates ftp server.i wish to format hte hard drive and run the 2000pro on it. the download came in a winrar file, i unzipped it to a new folder on my desktop and it came with these files:




so now i open nero and go to burn the files onto cd. firstly i chose to burn a CD-ROM (ISO) cd, was this correct??

i then proceeded to boot up the new burnt cd on the old pc, it had alot of error msgs before (something to do with norton anti virus :boggle then it just freezes:





now in theory the pc should jus run from the cd and go to a new page which wil give me the option of formatting and re-installing?

i think it may be due to the way i have burned the cd or something but im not too sure, please help me out as im bored and haven got much 2 do 2day!

dave
keninski
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17th Oct 03 at 12:37   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

doesnt look like its booting from the cd. Have you gone into bios and told it to boot from cd as first option??
dave17
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17th Oct 03 at 12:38   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

no but i will try now
keninski
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17th Oct 03 at 12:40   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

ok once youve done that it should boot from the cd and work


[Edited on 17-10-2003 by keninski]
dave17
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17th Oct 03 at 13:06   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

right ok, looks like summin has gona wrong here! heres a pic, was it set up properly?




basically it ran win98, all hte way thorught to the desktop! thne i click on my computer>win2000cd>setup and it gave me the option of upgrading etc. but i want to format, do can i set this up?
keninski
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17th Oct 03 at 13:11   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

yeah the bois is set up right. If your cd is correct, on boot up it should detect the cd is a bootbale one and ask you to press any key if you want to boot of it. if you dont press any key it will carry on and boot up off your harddisk. is it trying to boot off of cd or just going straight by??
dave17
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17th Oct 03 at 13:20   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

jus going straight by?

did i burn the cd wrong?

looking through the cd modes in nero there is:

CD-ROM (ISO) (tried, worked fine once pc had fully booted)
Mixed Mode CD
CD Extra
Boot CD (tried, wouldn let me burn, may try again tho)
CD-ROM (UDF)
CD-ROM (UDF/ISO)


[Edited on 17-10-2003 by Dave17]
dave17
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17th Oct 03 at 13:38   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

ahhh shit cnt get the pc to boot now :S
keninski
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17th Oct 03 at 13:39   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

should work with ISO. it might be that the copy of 2000pro on your mates ftp server is working properly
keninski
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17th Oct 03 at 13:40   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

try and downlaod a 2000 boot disk from somewhere onto a floppy
dave17
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17th Oct 03 at 13:49   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

i think the copy should be fine because it works fine once win98 is loaded. thing is, i cnt get hte pc to boot now i keep gettin:

"While Initialising device VFBACKUP:
Windows Protection Error. You need to restart your computer"

huh?

and what are the standard bios settings?

cant i format while in win98 and install 200 there and then?

i will look for a floppy book disk
mjw_2k2
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17th Oct 03 at 13:52   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

format the hard drive then install win98, then just update to 2000 replacing 98
dave17
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17th Oct 03 at 13:55   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

i dont have the 98 cd
keninski
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17th Oct 03 at 14:04   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

do you know anyone who has windows 2000??
keninski
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17th Oct 03 at 14:04   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

on their computer??
dave17
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17th Oct 03 at 14:07   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

nope, i think i may have found a floppy boot disk tho:


Boot / Setup disks for Windows 2000 Professional
- Disk 1 - cdboot1.img
- Disk 2 - cdboot2.img
- Disk 3 - cdboot3.img
- Disk 4 - cdboot4.img
- Disk utils to create Win2K disks from cdboot images.
( If you are using *nix you can write back these disk images using any bit copy program such as dd. Thanks to Andy Longton for pointing this out. )

keninski
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17th Oct 03 at 14:11   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

yeah they might work
keninski
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17th Oct 03 at 14:11   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

it should get so far through booting of the floppys and then ask for the cd
dave17
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17th Oct 03 at 14:37   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

right jus formatting some floppy disks now, grrr this is jarrin! nothing is eva that simple! d/lin that redline game was piss compared 2 this!
dave17
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17th Oct 03 at 14:54   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

lol, formatting the disks is now even a problem! when i format, they only free up 1.38mb with 3.50kb being used up by something else?! the files are 1.44mb!

so what going on THERE then?!
dave17
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17th Oct 03 at 15:26   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

i cnt boot the pc anymore, i put everything back 2 default, removed cd, no disk in the drive, and it stil comes up with:

"While Initialising device VFBACKUP:
Windows Protection Error. You need to restart your computer"
modded_corsa
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17th Oct 03 at 16:08   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

av u got a windows start up disk if so put that in let it boot on that nd thn when it comes up on ur screen as A: type formay c: i ink that ow ya do it cant member was so long ago since done mine
dave17
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17th Oct 03 at 16:22   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

i aint got no cd's il have to think about it 4 a while, unless sum1 had got any other ideas?

 
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