[Matt Cauldrin]

I have tryed to slipstream uSP5.1 onto OEM Win2k SP0 with nLite
it installed (Ithink -Ididnt watch it) on reboot I get this :

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Boot from ATPI CD-rom:
Press any Key .....j

and things stop .
Is the ' j ' and error code ..What's it mean?

thanks

[edit] when no CD in drive :

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Boot from ATPI CD-ROM: Failure....
j

and booting sequence stops

This post has been edited by Matt Cauldrin: 22 April 2006 - 09:01 PM

[xpmaniac4ever]

Man, did you check your boot order in BIOS ? Make sure you are able to boot from harddisk after CDROM.

This post has been edited by xpmaniac4ever: 23 April 2006 - 01:27 AM

[Dels]

i use usp51 slipstreamed win2k cd with nlite and i don't have any bug, if the boot order is correct try to remake your windows custom source

[Matt Cauldrin]

boot order is correct

watched the install process and it is give the problem when the PC tries to reboot after transfering the the files to the hard drive

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Boot from ATPI CD-rom:
Press any Key .....j

redownloaded uSP5.1 - checked the hash ,Made a couple more CDs , no joy

I tryied the original genuine Win2k cd same thing

try a Xp CD got this stop error when rebooting after files transfer

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STOP: c0000221 unknown hard error
\SystemRoot\system32\ntdll.dll

Must be broken HDD ?? do you think ??

This post has been edited by Matt Cauldrin: 24 April 2006 - 04:17 AM

[Matt Cauldrin]

hmmm.. well i swaped the HD and

but I don't understand how could the drive format ok and still be bad ?
especially WinXp formats the drive and then check its ok hmm..

[-I-]

try low-level formating the disk ...
most hdisk manufactors have a tools disk for such operations...

Search @ Google = low level format <insert hddrive name here>

[Electrician]

I had the same problem once. Win 2k would go through and format the drive, copy files to it, reboot and
#!* the drive was bad! Even tried powerquest tool to reformat the drive, but same process.
Tried another drive (a small klunker I had lying around) SAME problem.
SO, I started over on original drive, with a diff motherboard. Format, copy files reboot <shut off and put drive on problem MOBO> boot, windows installed just fine.
I chalked it up to something flakey with the AMD chipset.

Was doing a re-install for a friend and was p***ed at my wasted time, so no more chance or attempts to test it further.

BTW XP uses a slightly diff NTFS format than 2k.

[DanceMan]

Windows installs can go pear shaped from various hardware issues. Since installs are often prompted by some kind of problem or failure, it's generally a good idea to run two simple tests before proceeding: the hard drive manufacturer's test utility and memtest86+ for the ram. Both of these will run from a self booting floppy, and thus require no working OS in the computer. If you lack a floppy, the Ultimate Boot CD contains all the hdd utiilities and memtest.