Trouble Installing Windows 2000

[TheOrakul]

Hello. I have a a Intel Pentium 3 computer. The other day it crashed due to viruses and pop up ads taking over it. I ran various spyware and adware programs nothing worked. I tried going into safe mode to see if i can fix from there but can't because the computer shuts down and reboots in the middle of me tryingto get ito that mode. So i decided to start from scratch and reinstall windows 2000, the problem is that it does'nt load all the way, only half way then the computer shut down, and rebooted. So i tred again and the same thing happens . It gets to a certain point in the loading process then shuts down again. Sometimes i'll get a message saying there was a hardware confuguration problem, other times it will just shut down ad reboot. Do i need to erase all on the hardrive first ? if so how ? or what might the problem and solution be to get windows installed? Thanks for your help!!

 

[Davetoo]

Delete the partition during W2K setup and the reformat it then install.

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[TheOrakul]

Thats the problem it wont let me get that far to partition a drive. At the beggining, windows loads and ask what version of it to instal i choose windows 2000 and then it attempts to load then fails, boots me off then loads back up and does this all over again.

 

[electronicsfreak]

Make this windows 98 boot disc, then load from it and use it to delete the partion and then create a new one and format. heres a link for it

http://www.bootdisk.com/

 

[wolluf]

Are you booting from the 2k install CD? If not, you should be. If you are and the install is failing, then you have got a hardware problem (rather than effects of spyware etc) - and you'll need to go thhrough process of elimination to find what's causing the problem. If this is the case - some history would be helpful - eg, what you thought was virus/spyware problems may have also been bad hardware. So, is there a history of problems with this machine?

But its not clear if you're starting the install from within the current damaged windows or not.