Hi,

I am not a great fan of fujitsu drives........If your CD drive is OK, then I would suspect this to be the culprit. Can you try putting the hard drive into another machine and try loading windows on that...................if you get the same problem then it is the drive........if not, try putting it back into your machine with the OS now loaded:

1. If it works, then I would replace the CD drive (assuming you have cleaned the heads and the CD surface, and it still fails.............amazing what a head cleaning disk can do and I am not being funny I have had some CDs accepted and others failed, and a simple cleaning worked)

2. If it doesn't then it looks like the MoBo doesn't support W2K?

I had a friend with a dead fujitsu HDD. He took his machine to the local PC store and they had it three days.............couldnt get it to work, even with a new drive. Told him the MoBo was dead.

I dug out a new drive (Seagate or Western Digital......can't remember) stuck it into a new machine and loaded his software. Removed the drive and put it into his machine.........it has worked perfectly ever since..............don't ask me why, but it might work for you.


BTW, you may get some "whining" at first when it finds the sound and video cards etc are different, so make sure you have all your driver software to hand.


I don't like fujitsu, they only have a one year warranty over here.


Good Luck