Reinstall / Repair and Drive Corruption warning

[LOKIDOG]

I am trying to repair or reinstall Win 2K Pro on a newly installed Hard Drive. I ghosted the drive and it worked, but then I deleted some files because Windows reassigned drives incorrectly!

Now when I boot from the Windows CD (I made a boot CD with SP 4 integrated into it) I get the message Setup has determined drive C is corrupted and can not be repaired. It is a 320 gig drive, new from WD.

However it is not corrupt as I can read everything in it with Symantec Boot CD and have checked it the the Symantec Drive Utilities, as well as the WD datalife guard.

I think the Windows Setup disk can not read the large drive?

Also, when I do allow the machine to boot on the drive, it goes all the way to the desktop, then I get the error that the paging file is missing or corrupt and it loops here. But it is obviously reading the drive for it to boot to this point.

Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks.

 

[TomCologne]

Does the slipstreamed Win CD work with other PCs or drives?
Or, have you tried the original Win CD?

TomCologne

 

[LOKIDOG]

The Slipstreamed CD works on my other W2K system. But the same error comes up with my SP2 CD as well as from floppy Boot disks.

 

[LOKIDOG]

I should say the same error comes up on the large - 320 G drive machine no matter what W2K disk I use.

 

[electronicsfreak]

I had something similar to that. It was a western digital drive also. Was a year old and it was dead. Dont know if thats your problems or not.

 

[wolluf]

I ghosted the drive and it worked, but then I deleted some files because Windows reassigned drives incorrectly!

Then why not start again, ghosting the drive - BUT make sure you remove the drive you're ghosting from before you boot from the newly ghosted drive (that's what usually causes wrong drive letter assignment - and once that's happened, its not worth trying to 'fix it).

 

[LOKIDOG]

Well, I didn't want to ghost the drive again, because I thought my old drive had files missing too. But then I thought, no, I probably only deleted files off the new drive mistakenly.

So I reinstalled my old drive, and Voila, it has all the files and works. So now, I will try to reghosting later.

Still can't figure out the drive not being read in the install process.

This time I'll format the drive with the WD software as a boot drive, then use Norton Ghost to retrieve the image to the drive. I won't rely on the copy drive method!