Bootable Win2K disk

[Anonymous]

I created a bootable Win2K CD as instructed, and I think everything went well.

My problem is that I attempted to upgrade a Dell Laptop to W2K from NT and now when it boots to W2K it hangs on the startup screen half way through.

I thought I would try the bootable Win2K CD to attempt to reinstall or repair.

Now when I boot from the new CD, it says

\"setup is inspecting your computer\'s hardware configuration...\"

\"NTDETECT failed\"

and it goes no further.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Mark

[Josetann]

Did you ever get it to go into safe-mode?  Also, since I know you now have a working CD, you can try a clean install (instead of upgrading).  If it\'s a fullversion CD it\'ll be no problem, if it\'s an upgrade CD you\'ll need your original Windows CD so it can verify you can use the upgrade version.  Other than that, it works exactly the same.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the thoughts. I did try safe mode to no avail. I never found out what happened. I ended up just doing the clean install. After I made a new CD it all went file.

Unfortunately I then decided I wanted to make it a dual boot and found out that W2K should come after 98 so I started all over again with fdisk.

but here i am tonight with a dual boot and back on line.

I\'ve really enjoyed reading the posts here. Lots of good info. Keep up the good work.

mark