reformatting

[TMA_1]

I am no expert, but I know enough about hardware and software to get around without having to send acomputer to a specialist.

anyways my sis has a comp and she constantly rebooted without doing it the proper way, now when it boots up it says it cant find a boot device. I went to the bios and turned off boot devices and everything, and that didnt work. went to failsafe defults and that didnt work. Now when I try to install win 2000 it always freezes. what could be wrong? I formatted the darn hard drive but when installing it always freezes.

help me out guys!! lol

seriously help would be great.

[Andrew]

Try another OS. Like win 98.

So you did format the hard drive?

You are botting from the CD? (ie when you start the computer, the CD starts doing stuff adn something pops up asking you questions when its done loading?)

[Atomic Mitten]

I am no expert, but I know enough about hardware and software to get around without having to send acomputer to a specialist.

anyways my sis has a comp and she constantly rebooted without doing it the proper way, now when it boots up it says it cant find a boot device. I went to the bios and turned off boot devices and everything, and that didnt work. went to failsafe defults and that didnt work. Now when I try to install win 2000 it always freezes. what could be wrong? I formatted the darn hard drive but when installing it always freezes.

help me out guys!! lol

seriously help would be great.

Go into the BIOS boot devices options.enable all boot devices again ! Then select each drive in turn,including CD rom drives and floppys.

When you select each one select auto and press enter,the BIOS should then enable each one correctly.

Re-boot with the CD rom as first boot device,you change the boot order using the + and - keys on the numeric keypad,to the right of your main keyboard,whilst in the BIOS.

For example set the first boot device to CD rom,second to floppy disc,third to IDE 1.

Hope this helps,let me know if you need any other help. :)

[gryphon]

Now when I try to install win 2000 it always freezes.

on which step / part of the install does it freeze ?

[Atomic Mitten]

Any update TMA, did you manage to get your sisters comp working ?

[Kiyouta]

Yes this happened to me too.

You need to go into your BIOS and 'Load BIOS Defaults' or 'Load Standard Defaults'

Also disconnect all unnecesary devices, espically USB devices, printers, scanners, everything but your mouse and keyboard.

Then try installing Win2k. Once its installed, connect back everything and allow plug and play to do its job.