Guest bill Posted March 18, 2008 Posted March 18, 2008 I decided to make a disk partition so I decided for a fresh setup. "Press any key to boot from CD....." Enter Partition OK Format OK Copying files OK After Setup copied w2k files Initialize Windows OK Setup reboots then again "Press any key to boot from CD....." Didn't press any key. Computer hangs. Motherboard is ASRock 775i65G. BIOS 3.20. Pentium IV 3GHZ, 1GB RAM. Bios setup seems to be OK. Two SATA disks (Seagate 80 GB & Samsung 200GB) are recognized and formatted okay. Run out of ideas. Any help? Thanks
Guest John John Posted March 18, 2008 Posted March 18, 2008 Re: computer hangs after setup Did you supply the SATA drivers to the Setup program? Press F6 at the begining of the Setup and supply the drivers on floppy diskete when asked to do so. John bill wrote: > I decided to make a disk partition so I decided for a fresh setup. > > "Press any key to boot from CD....." Enter > Partition OK > Format OK > Copying files OK > After Setup copied w2k files > Initialize Windows OK > Setup reboots > then again "Press any key to boot from CD....." Didn't press any key. > Computer hangs. > > Motherboard is ASRock 775i65G. BIOS 3.20. Pentium IV 3GHZ, 1GB RAM. > Bios setup seems to be OK. Two SATA disks (Seagate 80 GB & Samsung > 200GB) are recognized and formatted okay. > > Run out of ideas. Any help? > Thanks
Guest bill Posted March 18, 2008 Posted March 18, 2008 Re: computer hangs after setup John John wrote: > Did you supply the SATA drivers to the Setup program? Press F6 at the > begining of the Setup and supply the drivers on floppy diskete when > asked to do so. John I did before (june 2007) and worked without supplying additional drives.
Guest John John Posted March 18, 2008 Posted March 18, 2008 Re: computer hangs after setup bill wrote: > John John wrote: > >> Did you supply the SATA drivers to the Setup program? Press F6 at the >> begining of the Setup and supply the drivers on floppy diskete when >> asked to do so. > > John > I did before (june 2007) and worked without supplying additional drives. Were both drives attached during that install, specifically was the 200 GB drive attached? John
Guest bill Posted March 18, 2008 Posted March 18, 2008 Re: computer hangs after setup John John wrote: > Were both drives attached during that install, specifically was the 200 > GB drive attached? Solved! Yes the 200GB HDD was attached. What happened is that for some reason disk 1 (C:) was changed to E: and and disk 1 (D:) to F:. That's why Setup didn't find the disk. I deleted both partitions, recreated C: and D:, formatted C: only and worked fine. AFAIK the ASRock mobo is fully SATA (INTEL) compatible. No floppy is supplied along the motherboard. Thanks a lot.
Guest John John Posted March 18, 2008 Posted March 18, 2008 Re: computer hangs after setup bill wrote: > John John wrote: > >> Were both drives attached during that install, specifically was the >> 200 GB drive attached? > > > Solved! > Yes the 200GB HDD was attached. What happened is that for some reason > disk 1 (C:) was changed to E: and and disk 1 (D:) to F:. That's why > Setup didn't find the disk. I deleted both partitions, recreated C: and > D:, formatted C: only and worked fine. > > AFAIK the ASRock mobo is fully SATA (INTEL) compatible. No floppy is > supplied along the motherboard. > > > Thanks a lot. You're welcome. Keep in mind that even if the mobo can run SATA in IDE mode the Windows 2000 setup will still choke on disks/partitions larger than 137GB. Thanks for letting us know how you resolved the problem. John
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