2000 Professional Crash (W2K)

[epags]

I have a 4 year old system running 2000 professional with Norton antivirus and three spam ware programs and goback 4.0. Looked at system today and it was locked up....rebooted numerous times getting bad starts or no starts. Ran 2000 setup and got the following message almost immediately: i/o error status = 00001010 NTDETECT failed.

Do I have a virus or is the hard drive crashing? Anyone got an idea?

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[BertImmenschuh]

It could indeed be a hard drive failure. Can you boot to any other bootable disk such as a Win98 floppy or the Win2000 CD? May need to reset the BIOS setting the floppy or CD as the first boot device.

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[The_Dude]

Bad ram will give you install errors too.

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[G3n7r0]

I had a similar problem. All I did was replacing the bad ntdetect.com with a copy from the other comp which had the same version of win and everything else worked fine.
It might help or it could be a completely different error.

For some reason the reinstall process wouldn't continue on that bad copy of ntdetect. I guess
if you formated the drive you could install win but that's out of the question right ;).

Anyways, try replacing the ntdetect via boot diskete or a cd, or deleting it and trying the win reinstall process again.

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