Windows 2k Laptop

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Hey all, i have my mates old laptop and am trying to reinstalled Windows 2000 for him. But i keep getting BSOD half way threw loading of the files just after booting from the cd,

error is:

***STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF7463848, 0xC0000034,0x0000000,0x0000000) INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

any thoughts?
 
HD boot sector?

i assume you mean that the CD is selected as the 1st boot device, if so it is.

as for anti virus, this was happening nefore av was installed.

I just installed AVG Free as the rest of the error says to try it.
 
Are you re-installing but not formating the drive?
I've had this problem before and found that re-installing over the top didn't work, had to format the drive.

Only other thing i can think of is a corrupt CD. Did you create the Win2000 boot floppies from the CD as that would explain why they might not work. But i doubt this is the problem.
 
yes tryed the boot cds for win2k as well.

Am just trying to use Windows Setup to reformat the drive then install. Is this not the same as the Windows XP Setup.

1st timer doing Win2k
 
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