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Date: | Tue, 28 Aug 2001 07:58:18 -0400 |
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If Win 98 runs on the IBM drive, I can't see how it can be a drive issue. I seem to remember that Win 2K had some installation problems when it was introduced, but I don't know if MS fixed them on later copies. For it to be a drive issue, the drive would have to know the difference between Win 98 and Win 2K. How old is your copy of Win 2K ? Is this a brand new genuine copy from MS, or is it a suspect eBay purchase? There is no reason I can think of that a working drive (Win 98) would discriminate among operating systems.
>I have a Ibm GXP 45.0gig 7200rpm harddrive that is giving me fits!
>I ghosted another drive to it, and have been running win2k on it for weeks with few problems.
>I decided to do a clean install - fdisked, formated and booted off the win2k cdrom.
>The files started to copy to the drive and the when it says starting windows 2000
>I get a bluescreen error **** Stop:0X00000006b....................process1_initialization_failed.
>I have disabled everything imaginable in bios (abit kt7-raid 1.0gig cpu)and just have video, ram, cpu and harddrive installed. yes I did install the latest VIA 4in1 drivers.
>I have used "zap disk" "wipe", fdisk /mbr, and all the IBM utilitys say the drive
>is okay, I also lowlevel formatted. The drive has a fat32 partition using the entire drive space. I have tried booting from the floppy start disks also.
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>Just for a test I installed win98 on it and it worked fine, Then installed win2k
>over the top of win98 and got the blue screen again when windows 2000 started.
>Win98 still runs fine.
>Even tried ghosting win2k from another working win2k harddrive that I'm running now, same
>blue screen.
>I finally used a new 30gig 5400rpm maxtor and win2k installed okay.So it almost has to
>be a drive issue.
> Any ideas?
>Thanks in advance
>Larry....
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>
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