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Solve : Win2000 Pro Install Dialogue Box Disappears After Clicking 'Yes'? |
| Answer» <html><body><p>I am reverting an old Del XPS T750r from Windows XP back to Windows 2000 in order to run my favorite printer, a reliable HP 1175Cse. (There is no HP-supported XP driver for that printer and I now have a new Dell Studio XPS and printer as my main system- <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/whew-7743621" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about WHEW">WHEW</a>!)<br/><br/>Anyway, using a Win 98 SE boot disk I successfully reformatted the HD and then loaded that OS. From there, I tried to upgrade to 2000 using a legitimate 2000 Pro upgrade CD and would get 2 message boxes; the one in the rear contained the "Install Windows 2000", "Install Add-on components", etc. buttons. The msg box in front said 'This CD-ROM contains a newer version of Windows than the one you are presently using. Would you like to upgrade to Windows 2000?'<br/><br/>When I click 'Yes' both message boxes disappear!!! If I click 'No', the front box disappears, the second box remains, but the 'Install Windows 2000" button is disabled. However, the 'Browse This CD' button does work.<br/><br/>Specs: Intel x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 1; <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/256-297976" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about 256">256</a> Mb RAM; Win 98 SE; 32 Gb hardrive; CD-RW; DVD-ROM; Zip-250; Floppy drive.There is no need to install Win98 <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/1st-283090" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about 1ST">1ST</a>...<br/>Format the drive again and go straight to the Win2K install...<br/>When prompted for the upgrade put in the Win98 CD for verification and the install will continue.Did that and I got stopped again.<br/><br/>On blue screen background I received this message: <br/><br/>'Setup cannot access the CD containing the Windows 2000 installation files.<br/>To retry, press ENTER. If you are not successful after several tries, quit Setup. then, to restart Septup, copy the Windows 2000 installation files to your hard drive.' >> This "solution" makes no sense to me whatsoever!!!<br/><br/>Now what? :-)You may have a bad CD drive...<br/>DLoad a Win2K boot image from bootdisk.com and unzip it to a floppy and try again...I could read the contents of the CD just fine (prior to HD reformat and <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/removal-768369" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about REMOVAL">REMOVAL</a> of Win98 OS). <br/>In fact, I made Win 2000 boot floppy disks from my Win 2000 CD, disks that executed Windows 2000 Setup correctly. <br/>Following the floppy boot's directions I eventually loaded the Win 2000 CD and then hit F8 to <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/agree-1732116" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about AGREE">AGREE</a> (with Win 2000 Licensing Agreement).<br/><br/>It asked for the legal OS copy (I loaded win 98 CD). It responded, 'To set up Windows 2000 on the selected item (C: FAT32), press ENTER.'<br/><br/>It responded 'Insert the CD labeled: Windows 2000 Professional CD-ROM.<br/><br/>I complied, hit return and it examined the C: drive. Then it gave me the same bad news -- "Setup cannot access the CD ...<br/><br/>that and was immediately directed to load the Win 2000 disk. Same result.Hate to have to ask but where is this Win2K CD from ? ?Our corporate systems administrator's archive. He has all legit stuff. I will get new copy tomorrow and also have him create a bootable version. Thanks for trying to solve what seemed to be an easy problem - but I won't let Microsoft win! Even if I have to bloody my knuckles!!! :-)<br/>It may in fact be a bad image file/CD...Best of Luck with the new one and post back if you still have issues...Will do!</p></body></html> | |