my Windoze 2000 installation notes

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A few days ago (November 2002) I accidentally installed an incorrect IDE driver in Windows 2000. The machine crashed instantly, and wouldn't boot anymore: INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE. Booted into Linux, where I found every Windows disk (including the NTFS volume that had Windows 2000) was perfectly readable.

My attempts to fix this: booting in Safe mode, "last known good configuration", from CD-ROM, Recovery console, FIXBOOT, disabling some services... nothing worked.

Booted back into Linux, copied the data I wanted to keep from the NTFS volume, and decided to re-install Windows 2000:

Total: TWO hours, and TEN reboots. Then you have an OS with Explorer, Minesweeper, and such. No other applications. After the initial install I removed the "quick launch" icon for Outlook ("sure you want to move it to the recycle bin?", NO I WANT TO DELETE IT, EMPTY RECYCLE BIN, "sure you want to remove this item?"). The icon reappeared sometime while installing the subsequent updates...

No I don't dislike Microsoft software. DOS 5.0 was actually ok.



Patrick Min