booting problems with 2k

[Vncent_0]

My computer was having problems finding the bootsector (always fun 'eh?) and giving me all these errors, so I reformatted my drives, put in my windows 2k cd and started from that, waited for it to do its thing, then when it restarted, it loads to a completely blank, black screen, no cursor, nothing, and it runs like that until I hit the power off button =/ any ideas?

[JezterVA]

If you the hard disk utilities floppy that came the drive, I would boot to it low-level format the drive and start again. Could be a bad spot on the drive that a low-level will flag as bad and mark as unusable. Good Luck.

[Vncent_0]

dont have the disk that came with it :(... any other ways?

[JezterVA]

What kind of disk is it?? You may be able to download the utuilities from the manufacturers website.

[Breadfan]

Yeah you can d/l drive utilities from the manufacturer's website.

Problem is, if there IS a bad sector, a low level format will not flag it. Low level formats are actually not recommended in most cases becuase they will actually delete flags for bad sectors previously marked.

But, a low level format should help fix any problems like a boot sector virus.