Help! The NTFS format in Windows 2000 setup freezes at 75%!!
Hey guys i am frustrated. I am trying to load windows 2000 professional on my system. I made the 4 boot disks and everything went smoothly on loading the first 3 but once it prompts to format my drive in NTFS and i start the process it stops at 75%.
Hey guys i am frustrated. I am trying to load windows 2000 professional on my system. I made the 4 boot disks and everything went smoothly on loading the first 3 but once it prompts to format my drive in NTFS and i start the process it stops at 75%. I tried the setup twice and both times it happened. So i thought that my hard drive may be bad somehow so i used that western digital datalife tool disk and let that write 0's to every sector and that worked fine.......soo...after that i tried the setup again and here it is stuck at 75%..no hard drive activity at all for about a half and hour......please help...i dont have an operating system!!!
Mike
Mike
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Try this:
During setup, choose to stick with your current file system (leave the current file system intact), THEN when windows 2000 has fully been set up, you can convert the drive or partition to ntfs using this command:
convert c: /fs:ntfs
where C: is the drive you want to convert to NTFS.
NOTE: converting to NTFS is NOT reversible. This means once you convert, the only way to go back to FAT16/32 is to delete the partition an re-create it using Fdisk (then formatting) or by using a program like Partition Magic.
Good luck!
During setup, choose to stick with your current file system (leave the current file system intact), THEN when windows 2000 has fully been set up, you can convert the drive or partition to ntfs using this command:
convert c: /fs:ntfs
where C: is the drive you want to convert to NTFS.
NOTE: converting to NTFS is NOT reversible. This means once you convert, the only way to go back to FAT16/32 is to delete the partition an re-create it using Fdisk (then formatting) or by using a program like Partition Magic.
Good luck!
