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abit kt7 raid - unable to boot from cdrom

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fishy101

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Hi,

I have abit kt7 raid and I was trying to install win2k on it. But for some reason it was not able to boot from the CDROM. I checked the bios and messed around with the boot order to no avail. I wasn't aware of anything else that could possibly affect booting from CDROM. Any ideas? I have booted into the box using a boot disk, and I am actually installing win2k on the machine using the cdrom right now. But I was just curious as to why I wasn't able to boot directly from the CDROM. Oh, and yes, it's a bootable CD.

Thanks.

 
Same mobo, I had some problems too, and used a bootable disk.
Really don't know, what CD id it?
I have a Plextor 12*10*32
 
actually I am.

Wanna hear a funny story tho, I am running win2k on e:\, which is a logical drive in the extended partition. I mean, I didn't even installed it on the primary partition!!!:Q I didn't think it was possible before this, but I was having so much trouble installing win2k on c:\(it was very slow, plus it won't get past dos part of the installation) that I decided to try it on another partition. Well it worked, so I am just going to stick with that for now.

edit: oh right, I have 2 ibm 20gb hard drives doing raid 0.
 
RAID controller supports only ATA66/100.
For W2k, like NT can install eerywhere.
But I don't have a clue of why the problems in C....
 
i'm having the same problems with win2k, for some reason it will not install it on the c drive, after it formats it it says there is an error with the disk or something to that effect. i was having the same problems as well with booting from the cd- i made the cd the first boot device, and also had to make sure that ide drive was set to "auto" in the bios, then i was able to boot from the cd. but still haven't figured out why i can't put w2k on the disks as they are- if you've found out any info i would be grateful.
 
If you want to boot from a bootable CD ROM such as Win 2000, then, assuming you have set-up the BIOS to do so, you may have to press a key when the Boot from CD message comes up on your display.
 
All my large capacity hard drives have 4 partitions on each of them.
Each partition is a primary partition.
I don't use extended partitions ets.
I have 4 Primary partitions on each drive.
You can do that with some partition manager programs.
With the right kind of boot manager, I can install & boot any which way.
 
I'm wondering about the answer to Asul's question on running the CD off of the raid contoller, you're not suppost to do that. As for win2k installing on the E: drive, are your cd's C: and D:?
 
The only thing that comes to mind are the numerous sets of VIA drivers. Make sure you have the latest ones and see if that helps.

Get them from ViaHardware

Don't know if that will help or not, as I have not loaded Win2k on my AMD system, only my Intel board.
 
If you dare to read page 1-4 of the ABIT manual,the third bold note says that they suggest to use the HPT370 only for high performance stuff, and " we suggest that you don't connect non-disks devices ...such as CD-ROM to the HPT370 controller"


 
Oh, BTW, I have problems booting rom my bkup copy of the W2k cd too 🙂
But the others are fine.
 
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