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Are SATA hard drives a problem for W2K no matter what?

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imported_Kiwi

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It's with an Abit K9N SLI mainboard, and a Seagate 500 GB drive. I pre-formatted it to have a couple of partitions smaller than 128 GBs available before updating to SP4, but it keeps having this Fatal Stop after getting halfway through the install.

 
Shoot, I had the thing load every single driver on the silly floppy, singly at first, then in bulk! It's a Seagate 500 GB, and only the final partition was a large one, in case I needed SP3 before I could even add a drive with a big logical drive size on it . . and no, my several Win2000 CDs are older than SP2, and I would SWEAR that I've done just exactly this same thing with a 250 GB SATA and another Abit mainboard before, without difficulty!

 
Originally posted by: Kiwi
Shoot, I had the thing load every single driver on the silly floppy, singly at first, then in bulk! It's a Seagate 500 GB, and only the final partition was a large one, in case I needed SP3 before I could even add a drive with a big logical drive size on it . . and no, my several Win2000 CDs are older than SP2, and I would SWEAR that I've done just exactly this same thing with a 250 GB SATA and another Abit mainboard before, without difficulty!
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i would try slipstreaming a new windows 2000 cd with sp4 and see if that solves the problem you are having.
 
w2K will not work unless its slipstreamed. if you are cloning from an older hd, it will most likely not work anyway since W2k is extremely sensitive to hardware changes...

About the best way to do this is to upgrade to windows xp BEFORE you clone, and clone the XP system to the new SATA drive.
 
Originally posted by: Smitty308
I have installed 2000 PRO on 4 different computers with SATA hard drives and had no problems with any.

Good Luck
Smitty
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Dittos!

I'm running 4 SATA drives on 2 different W2K Pro machines, with no problem.

Then again, they have older mobos with the correct hardware drivers installed... 😉
 
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