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WIN 2000 installation

by Big Tim Nov 22, 2004 9:28PM PST

Can anyone HELP! With a clean HDD (Fdisk and Format) win 2000 refuses to install. Setup disks eventually invite the CD to be inserted, and very early on (atound 4%) error screen comes up saying that one of the dll. files cannot be copied. Given the option to skip the file, repeated files, mainly dll's are all reported as being able to be copied.

In desperation, I succesfully installed win 98, and tried to upgrade to 2000....with the same effect. I have installed win 2000 from this disk succesfully in the past, to another computer, and I now wish to replace that machine.

Anybody got any ideas?

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Re: WIN 2000 installation

by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Nov 22, 2004 9:34PM PST

This is typical of failing hardware. I don't know of a software workaround. Some may try copying the i386 directory to the hard disk and run the install from there, but I found that failing hardware is best repaired.

Bob

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Re: WIN 2000 installation

by Big Tim Nov 22, 2004 9:40PM PST

Thanks for that Bob. Any indication of which bit of hardware to replace first? My inclination is that the HDD is OK and I am guessing that the motherboard is OK as the win 98 system worked well.
Tim

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Re: WIN 2000 installation

by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Nov 22, 2004 9:48PM PST

Typically its RAM or CDROM drive.

I dropped the hint about the i386 directory...

Bob

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