Yeah I know I'm a dinosaur but I like w2k.
Anyway, 3 month old MAxtor 200GB SATA drive, partitioned into two 100 GB. One for data the other as the boot drive. Other specs for info. 8HDA+, XP3200+ not clocked, 2GB ram, 400W PSU, one other HDD.
Yesterday I was copying a pile of photos from CF cards onto the data partition and browsing at the same time, also previewing some of the photos. With no warning the system tried to reboot itself and the dreaded NTLDR missing message appeared. Tried fixmbr and fixboot from the console but no joy. Also tried a repair using the disk but it couldn't find an installation of the OS. CHKDSK found a ton of errors.
Wasn't too worried about anything on there so just formatted the partition and went to reinstall. Every thing went fine till it gets to the stage at the end where it says installing/configuring networking components and it reboots as it's copying the files from the CD. It then boots up again, says resuming w2k install, runs through the install and happens again, exactly the same spot every time.
My initial thoughts were scratched W2K disk so I loaded it up a spare disk (also SATA) no problem, using exactly the same settings. Repeated it to make sure it wasn't a fluke.
Anyone got any clues as to what could be causing this, I'm stumped
Anyway, 3 month old MAxtor 200GB SATA drive, partitioned into two 100 GB. One for data the other as the boot drive. Other specs for info. 8HDA+, XP3200+ not clocked, 2GB ram, 400W PSU, one other HDD.
Yesterday I was copying a pile of photos from CF cards onto the data partition and browsing at the same time, also previewing some of the photos. With no warning the system tried to reboot itself and the dreaded NTLDR missing message appeared. Tried fixmbr and fixboot from the console but no joy. Also tried a repair using the disk but it couldn't find an installation of the OS. CHKDSK found a ton of errors.
Wasn't too worried about anything on there so just formatted the partition and went to reinstall. Every thing went fine till it gets to the stage at the end where it says installing/configuring networking components and it reboots as it's copying the files from the CD. It then boots up again, says resuming w2k install, runs through the install and happens again, exactly the same spot every time.
My initial thoughts were scratched W2K disk so I loaded it up a spare disk (also SATA) no problem, using exactly the same settings. Repeated it to make sure it wasn't a fluke.
Anyone got any clues as to what could be causing this, I'm stumped
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