Could not find a place for a swap file

thipan · 07-15-2008, 04:22 AM

Hi
i have 2 partition in my hard drive both have windows2000 installed( C and D). in order to gain space in c and reinstalled win2k i have formated the deive c(NTFS format) from d hoping i can reinstall a fresh copy of win2k on C. i have tried to install win2k from cdrom but it couldn't. here is the error message i get "An internal setup error has occurred. could not find a place for a swap file. setup can not continue press enter to exit".

i want to achieve the following.
i have 20gb hard drive. i want to delete a partition and reformat the whole hard drive and re installed the win2k.
i dont have floppy drive.

is there any way that i can achieve the above with the help of win2k cd or any other programms.

thank you

**djaburg** · 07-15-2008, 09:31 PM

Boot from the CD and run the installation from there, indicating that you want to format C: and install there.

07-15-2008, 04:22 AM	#1 (permalink)
thipan Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 3 OS: WINDOWS 2000	Could not find a place for a swap file Hi i have 2 partition in my hard drive both have windows2000 installed( C and D). in order to gain space in c and reinstalled win2k i have formated the deive c(NTFS format) from d hoping i can reinstall a fresh copy of win2k on C. i have tried to install win2k from cdrom but it couldn't. here is the error message i get "An internal setup error has occurred. could not find a place for a swap file. setup can not continue press enter to exit". i want to achieve the following. i have 20gb hard drive. i want to delete a partition and reformat the whole hard drive and re installed the win2k. i dont have floppy drive. is there any way that i can achieve the above with the help of win2k cd or any other programms. thank you

07-15-2008, 09:31 PM	#2 (permalink)
djaburg TSF Enthusiast Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 1,321 OS: XP SP3/Vista/7 Server 2K/2K3/2K8	Re: Could not find a place for a swap file Boot from the CD and run the installation from there, indicating that you want to format C: and install there. __________________ Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. The inherent vice of capitalism is the uneven division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery.