At work, most hard drives we sell are IBM HDDs, I've never heard of this
yet. my friend is using the same drive on his win2k box. I'll check this
issue tomorrow with our service guys (in case I missed something there).
If you don't mind, during win2k setup, delete partition from there and
create a NTFS partition, give it a go. If NTFS works, then you know your
fdisk (I guess you did from a win98 boot disk or similar) wasn't working
properly.
There is still a debate on which partition is better, NTFS or FAT32, I
support NTFS for its rich features (normal usage will not notice the
performance difference, sometimes, NTFS can be better).
Jun Qian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Fisk" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 2:25 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] IBM GXP 45 gig hard drive Win2k install problem
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.
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.
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