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How to terminate Windows Setup...
Windows 2000 setup keeps crashing. How do I terminate it and keep it from installing any further. I was in the process of an in-place restore install and it went FUBAR...
Help?
"I'm no technical supervisor, I'm a supervising technician."
--Homer Simpson
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Senior Member
I would just turn the power off, then boot to a bootdisk and reformat the drive. Or Ctrl+alt+delete, to a boot disk or OS/windows CD. Ctrl+alt+delete should restart the computer I believe.
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Ultimate Member
I am not that stupid...
You see I don;t have alfoppy drive to boot from and nor do I have CD drive to boot from either...It is a Sony slim laptop (only 3 lbs.) Is there any way while it is doing this to terminate it? It is at the point where a restart does not fix the problem.
"I'm no technical supervisor, I'm a supervising technician."
--Homer Simpson
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Senior Member
Originally posted by stix_kua
I am not that stupid...
Um...ok, I guess I am. I have done this before.
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Ultimate Member
Originally posted by crusious31
Um...ok, I guess I am. I have done this before.
Not saying ur stupid either bud...rememebr you are the one that pointed me to the correct Memory Stick drivers...
"I'm no technical supervisor, I'm a supervising technician."
--Homer Simpson
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Ultimate Member
I believe, you use the F3 to exit at any time.
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Ultimate Member
Didn't work...
"I'm no technical supervisor, I'm a supervising technician."
--Homer Simpson
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Ultimate Member
Well it went FUBAR further and won't even get to the Setup screens anymore. Talks of some missing file...
"I'm no technical supervisor, I'm a supervising technician."
--Homer Simpson
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Gone Fishin'
I would bet it is having problems with reading the cdrom or else the ram or harddrive is messed up. First run Memtest86 or some other DOS memory test. If the ram is good then run scandisk on both the harddrive and the installation cd from a DOS prompt. If scandisk passes both then you should try another copy of the os. You can still use the registration number from the bad copy if that is the problem. That same thing happened to me once and it was a scratch on the disk that caused the problem.
Last edited by ukulele; 06-09-2004 at 06:26 PM.
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Stark Raving MOD
I'm pretty sure this is the same computer. Multiple threads make it confusing.
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthre...hreadid=164122
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Ultimate Member
Yes it is the same computer but I am sking two different questions. The first thread was asking about how to do it. That was done by copying the I386 folders from the CD with a USB stick drive (multiple times to get it all over onto the secondary partition) After beginning setup a new problem developed and that wa the reason why I started this other thread. I thought it'd be more simple to sepearte the two issues. If I am wrong then I apologize.
"I'm no technical supervisor, I'm a supervising technician."
--Homer Simpson
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Senior Member
It's ok. When I had told you to just turn the power off, I had not yet read your second thread. So I didn't understand the way you were trying to get this to work with out a CD-ROM.
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Ultimate Member
Well I just need a Windows ME boot disk now. I do not have a floppy disk drive on my desktop to make one but i found my old laptop, switched the hard drive out of the Sony and am proceeding to reinstall Windows ME and then transfer the hard drive over to the Sony...boot up...reiinstall drivers...and then I am golden.
Thanks all...
"I'm no technical supervisor, I'm a supervising technician."
--Homer Simpson
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Senior Member
http://www.24by7.ca/files/bootme.exe
You can use this to make one on a friends computer.
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