- Joined
- Jan 23, 2003
- Location
- England
I'm having a few problems installing Win2k on a new HD of mine, its meant for a rig I'm building and put together yesterday, but upon trying to install win2k on it, I hit some pretty major problems.
The actual computer works, I have tested the CPU (2500+) and graphics card, I also have the same motherboard (NF7-s v2) and CD drive (Sony CRX300E). The Hard Disk is a Maxtor 80GB 2mb cache drive.
After making it boot from CD, with the win 2k + SP4 CD in there, (I slipstreamed service pack 4 in to the win2k installationg on the CD) you press any key to boot from it, let it load all the components, and then do as usual, select the partition and tell it to format and install, it formats and puts the files on the HD, however when it restarts to boot from the files it has just written to the HD, it simply says "Error Loading Operating System"
I know the HD works because I have tried it in other machines and from windows you can view all the files it originally installs. I have also tried installing from a different computer and that is also unsucessful. I have made sure it is booting from the right HD, it only says "Error Loading Operating System" from that HD, my RAID array and other HD are fine.
Ideas...anyone?
The actual computer works, I have tested the CPU (2500+) and graphics card, I also have the same motherboard (NF7-s v2) and CD drive (Sony CRX300E). The Hard Disk is a Maxtor 80GB 2mb cache drive.
After making it boot from CD, with the win 2k + SP4 CD in there, (I slipstreamed service pack 4 in to the win2k installationg on the CD) you press any key to boot from it, let it load all the components, and then do as usual, select the partition and tell it to format and install, it formats and puts the files on the HD, however when it restarts to boot from the files it has just written to the HD, it simply says "Error Loading Operating System"
I know the HD works because I have tried it in other machines and from windows you can view all the files it originally installs. I have also tried installing from a different computer and that is also unsucessful. I have made sure it is booting from the right HD, it only says "Error Loading Operating System" from that HD, my RAID array and other HD are fine.
Ideas...anyone?