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cant boot win 2000 on old laptop (3 posts)

Philip Dawson Posted 3 years, 10 months ago Joined: 12 years, 5 months ago

I thought I would resurrect my old windows 98 laptop which runs office apps and internet fast enough, but wont connect my mobile and run several apps with anything less than windows 2000. I formatted the 6GB hard drive with NTFS and installed windows 2000sp3 and all went smoothly, it picked up the USB mouse and I set the time zone etc ok, then after the final restart during the post screen it said cant write2disk, please run phdsk, then eventually booted, the windows 2000 start up screen happened and when the blue timer got right across the page the screen went blank and stayed there. I tried restarting a few times, entered the bios and turned off the warning about write2disc, I event reformatted to FAT32, no joy. I used the restore CDs which came with the PC to restore windows 98SE and It works fine. Could there be something in the BIOS preventing upgrades or is it something to do with write2disc, whatever that is? It is an NEC VERSA AX athlon 450MHz and the original 64mb RAD is now 256MB, had to run phdsk to tell it to use the new ram, but no idea about this write2disk thing.

Patrick Posted 3 years, 9 months ago Joined: 3 years, 10 months ago

Re: cant boot win 2000 on old laptop

try to reformat the hard drive and make sure the disk partition is active.

by using fdisk in dos.

Chris Burrage Posted 3 years, 9 months ago Joined: 12 years, 5 months ago

Re: cant boot win 2000 on old laptop

Laptops are really cheap now.... Is your W2k disk a full retail version? If so, try upgrading from within W98. Have 98 running, bung the disk in and see what happens.

Chris B

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