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Anonymous   09-13-2004 at 08:12:01 PM

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disk is in drive F: but when trying to run Setup, I get
this message: Not ready reading drive E:.

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Anonymous   09-14-2004 at 02:31:00 AM
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Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.setup (More info?)

 

The drive may be bad. To do a clean install, either boot the Windows 2000
install CD-Rom or setup disks. The set of four install disks can be created
from your Windows 2000 CD-Rom; change to the \bootdisk directory on the
CD-Rom and execute makeboot.exe (from dos) or makebt32.exe (from 32 bit) and
follow the prompts.

When you get to the point, delete the existing NTFS and or other partitions
found. After you delete the partition(s) abort the install, then again
restart the pc booting the CD-Rom or setup disks to avoid unexpected drive
letter assignments with your new install.

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"madelyn" wrote:
| disk is in drive F: but when trying to run Setup, I get
| this message: Not ready reading drive E:.

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