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    My computer is giving me more grief than I deserve

    The other day, i decided to install Windows 2000 on my PC, to replace Windows Me, which I was starting to get a tad fed up of. I "borrowed" my a Windows 2000 CD off one of my housemates and began to install. Everything was fine until I rebooted it. Whilst it was booting up, it went to a blue screen (I was rather hoping I'd seen the last of these), complaining that it couldn't find a specific registry setting, or something like that. I proceeded to dump the disk to memory, or vice versa, and rebooted. And did the same thing again. The MS knowledge base tells me I have to reinstall Windows as something has been corrupted. Fair enough.

    I figured that the way to sort this out was to put together the Windows 2000 startup disks. With the aid of the computer of another of my housemates (the same one I'm using right now, infact), I managed to do this. I booted from the first disk, putting each one in in turn. Eventually, it began to boot into Windows. Here we go, I thought.

    Not a chance.

    Now it's complaining of a "kernel error", or something similar (I forget what exactly, and I left the piece of paper I wrote it on in my room). It refuses to boot.

    All I want to do is boot into DOS with CD-ROM support so I can reinstall Windows. How the hell can I do this?
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    Pray?
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    • #3
      Windows 2000 has been replaced by Windows XP. 2000 is 5.0, XP is 5.1...

      Why can't you use the CD-Rom as a bootdisc? Doesn't Win2K support that?
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      • #4
        Awwww... *sympathy*
        Wish I had Win2000 though...Win95 is still just about creaking along on this system. My CD drive's dying on its feet, my scanner's already dead and my printer is coughing up ink.
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        • #5
          Originally posted by Asher
          Windows 2000 has been replaced by Windows XP. 2000 is 5.0, XP is 5.1...

          Why can't you use the CD-Rom as a bootdisc? Doesn't Win2K support that?
          I think the chances of getting XP to run on a P166 are somewhat limited.

          And as for the CD as a bootdisc: I've tried. Even when I set my BIOS try booting from the CD first, it still won't. Must be my intensely lame computer.

          I've just had a thought: will a Windows 98 boot disk allow me to boot into a DOS prompt with CD-ROM drivers loaded? If so, I can get another of my housemates to do me one and try that.
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          • #6
            sweat talk to the PC and repeatedly make the sign of the cross on it.

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            • #7
              Yes, a Windows 98 bootdisc allows you to boot into DOS with CD-ROM support. I used to use it all the time for that.
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              • #8
                will a Windows 98 boot disk allow me to boot into a DOS prompt with CD-ROM drivers loaded?
                Um, well this will work if it's an actual W98 out-of-the-box disc (ie, It Came From Redmond). I did this just a few weeks ago. Not sure if it's a do it yourself boot disc though.
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                • #9
                  Good. Next chance I get I'll ask him to sort that out for me.

                  Let's assume the worst (ie.; the likely) and say that doesn't work. What options do I have then?
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                  • #10
                    Get any old dos/win95/win98 boot disk

                    Create Autoexec.bat file on the boot with

                    MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001

                    Create config.sys file on the boot with

                    DEVICE=VIDE-CDD.SYS /D:MSCD001

                    Add two files to the boot disk, get of dos site

                    VIDE-CDD.SYS
                    MSCDEX.EXE

                    You now have a DOS boot disk

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                    • #11
                      OK, my housemate with Win98 has gone around to a friend's house (either that or he's asleep, one of the two), so I can't create a startup disk that way. However, I've downloaded the necessary files off the net and bunged them onto a floppy, along with the extra stuff Ozz mentioned.

                      It still won't work. The floppy isn't bootable.

                      Is there something you do to a disk to make it bootable that I'm not aware of?
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                      • #12
                        /edit: oh wait .... that's the wrong thing ... ignore me
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                        • #13
                          what makes you think you don't deserver that

                          Maybe you could reformat your hard drive and try with Win 98 or something. At least to get it running.

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                          • #14
                            Just try this:

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                            http://www.dewassoc.com/download/Win98boot.zip


                            And don't change anything in it and you should have a DOS boot disk.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Paul Hanson


                              I think the chances of getting XP to run on a P166 are somewhat limited.
                              You know, every 10 years or so, you really *ought* to upgrade the hardware...
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