Win2K professional installation problem

[piyush425]

I have some query .I am trying to installing windows 2000 pro
in blank hard drive .Computer detect Harddrive & every thing then i put bootable four Floppy one by one.After 4th floppy i got message for put WIN2K Pro Cd in CDrom drive i put cd.then i got another message that i write down below
"
Windows 2000 professional setup
Setup could not read the CD YOU inserted or the CD is not from windows Nt 3.51 OR NT 4.0
Please insert your windows NT 3.51 workstation windows NT4.0 workstation,windows 95 or win 98 cd into your drive cd-rom drive

* when the CD is in the drive press ENTER
* To quite setup press F3
"

If you know how to solve this problem please let me know.

Thank you
Piyush

 

[akloster2]

Are these floppies you created using the Win2K CD? Normally you just boot the CD to install on newer PCs. If it is an older PC, you may need to boot a CD-ROM driver floppy.

If you are trying to install Win2K and the error message is telling you it is looking for a previous version, there may be a problem with your floppies.

It may be that you are not giving it enough time after inserting the CD. Are you waiting 10 seconds after inserting the CD so that the drive spins up and sees it first?

Is the CD-ROM access light coming on when you try to read it? Maybe the CD-ROM drive is not plugged in or defective. Can you read other CDs using a bootable floppy with CD-ROM drivers?

 

[wolluf]

Are you reading the message correctly? Is yours an upgrade version of win2k - that prompts for a qualifying windows CD during the install process - if you just left win2k in the drive, it won't find qualifying CD?