[Tom-boy]

OK, so I'm first to admit that I'm not computer literate, but neither is my girlfriend, hence a major problem. I installed Win2kPro a week ago just fine except that Cd-drives drivers weren't exactly right, so that when installing, some of the WINNT files didn't install properly. Result ws some game crashes, no CD-audio and occasional Windows apps probs but nothing too big to fix. In comes my better half,'fixes' the problem by updating (she thought it meant fixing!) Win2k, now in NTFS over the original FAT32. Nothing works. It takes 15 minutes to get everything to desktop and then some to launch apps (if lucky). Question:what the hell to do? No repair disk available, and since I used to use Mac, not familiar with DOS. So basically, what do I type to DOS or to the installation disks commands either to repair or to format the HD. I'm kinda hurry to get everything to run over this weekend, so help would be eternally remembered

[adamvjackson]

First, ensure that your 2k cd isn't damaged or scratched, sounds like you may have some cd issues if there was problems copying files when it was initially installed. Second, just reboot the pc with the 2k cd in the drive, and the setup program will autorun. You will have the option of where you want to install it, and it will give you the option to remove and reformat the drive, should you choose so.

[Tom-boy]

;( Ehm, I don't know what happened, but all of a sudden the darm thing decided to co-operate after all. Maybe it was the heavy hammer, which I waved in a threatening manner before it that did it I mean, I did precisely what you said; in fact, I've done before a couple of times with other OSs without anything like this happening. The CD is fine, so it leaves the CD-drive to be the only possible culprit , though at diagnostics box everything is seemingly OK and I've re-installed the drivers from the web. I guess I just have to dig deeper and see what's the prob.
Thanks for your answer, though, mate!

[adamvjackson]

No problem... Also, if you have a spare IDE cable, you might want to try swapping that out.. It's easier to swap out a cable than a drive, and I have seen cables fail.

[Tom-boy]

Hmm, never thought of that!? Luckily I do have one, so I better give it a shot- who's it gonna hurt anyway for trying. Good idea

[Tom-boy]

I'll try another question in this same post to see if it works, before posting a new one. It's related to the same issue as my first message in this post. I finally got the PC working by running the repair options from the Win2kPro disk. Now the thing starts but still very, very slowly. It takes forever to get everything on the desktop, but once it finally does, everything runs smoothly. Diagnostics says everything is OK. What is most concerning, is that my F-Secure 5.40 starts last, slowly, when before it went off among the first apps.
Win2kPro+SP3
AMD Duron 1200
Geforce 4 Ti 4200 64Mb
Sound Blaster Live
40 GB on HD, over 30 GB left
256 Mb RAM
E-IDE CD-Rom 52X/AKH
I use very much the same apps as in my previous comp, PII 233MHz, 3.2 GB, GeForce 2 32Mb, Sound blaster 128, 128 MB RAM;
with this configuration everything worked without a single major problem.