ASUS A7V133- Problem installing Windows 2000/98SE dual boot on RAID Controllers. NEED QUICK HELP!!

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ASUS A7V133- Problem installing Windows 2000/98SE dual boot on RAID Controllers. NEED QUICK HELP!!

Hi,

I have been trying for two days now but I just can?t get Windows 2000 installed.

Windows 98SE installed perfectly and runs well. But Windows 2000 is the OS causing problems.

I have tired many things to get it to work but now I am stuck.

Systems Specs:

Asus A7V133 BIOS 1004
1.2Ghz 266DDR Athlon
512Mb Ram CAS 2
2 x 45Gb IBM HDD in RAID 0. FAT32 (4GB Win98, 6Gb Win2k, 26Gb Apps, 26Gb Data, the rest (21Gb I think) Games.)

STEPS I TOOK:

1. Installed Win 98,
2. Ran Windows 2000 setup from within Windows 98 (selected new installed);
3. System Rebooted
4. When the Press F6 to install storage drivers came up, I used the drivers off the ASUS CD to get the system to recognise RAID. DIDN?T WORK!
5. After this set I got a Blue Screen with Inaccessable_Boot_Drive error.

I have tried the Promise drivers (Build 22 & 33). I made that sure the win2000 directory was at A:\win200. After numerous failings I gave up with this method.

This really frustrating.

I then decided to do this another way which I read about on Deja News. Here is a quote:



<< 1) Setup a functional drive array, format your partitions. I recommend
having at least 2 partitions.
2) Disable the RAID controller in the BIOS (and/or physically disconnect
your RAID hard drives)
3) Using a separate hard disk (NOT your RAID drives), install Windows 2000.
I hooked up a 8 gig drive to the primary IDE controller and installed
Windows 2000 normally. No RAID problems here, obviously.
4) After Windows 2000 is installed, enable the onboard RAID controller in
the BIOS and hook up your &quot;ready to go&quot; RAID hard drives back to it.
5) Boot into Windows 2000 and install the driver for the onboard RAID
controller. It will be an ! (exclamation mark) in device manager. Use the
driver on the ASUS CDROM that shipped with your motherboard. This will let
Windows 2000 &quot;see&quot; the RAID controller.
6) Download and apply the ATA100 hotfix from Microsoft to enable ATA100
support under Windows 2000. (If you have ATA100 disks).
7) Install any other drives as required such as video and sound. Get all of
the hardware in your computer working properly. This normally means
installing VIA 4-in-1 drivers FIRST then Video, etc...
8) Once you have a working Windows 2000 setup, boot with a DOS floppy with
GHOST on it and ghost your Windows 2000 partition onto your primary
partition on your drive array.
9) LEAVE ALL hard drives attached, but go into the BIOS and set the onboard
RAID controller to be the first boot device.
10) Windows 2000 should boot up using your drive array (notice the speed
increase!) You may have a problem with the swap file, so I suggest making
100% sure that your swap file is on your RAID drives. After that you can
try disconnecting the original hard disk used to install Windows 2000 to see
if all dependancies are gone. >>




I got upto step 8. I tried this on my 8.4Gb 5400RPM Fujitsu but I Ghosted the Win 2000 drive to drive D (A 6Gb Partiton for Windows 2000).

I then went back to Win 98SE and installed Partition Magic. Using Boot Magic I set up a boot menu to load 98SE and Windows 2000.

Restarted.

When I rebooted, Boot Magic appeared and I selected Windows 98 and it worked perfectly. Then when I tried to boot windows 2000, it starts to boot then halts saying that \WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\pci.sys is missing or corrupt. So I booted back into windows 98 and copied the pci.sys file from the Fujitsui 8Gb drive to the 6Gb Windows 2000 Partition. When I tired to load windows 2000 again, I still got the same error.

I have tired running repair from the Windows 2000 Boot disk, but the setup only recognises the Fujitui drive which is set up an Primary Master, so I can?t reinstall Windows.

What shall I do? I need to get rid of the Fujistui because it is not my HDD (borrowed it off a friend).

Is there a simple way to get Windows 2000 to install which would not involve having to format the windows 98SE partition? I suppose I could do it if it ment windows 2000 would run properly, but I would prefer not too.

Could I just install Windows 2000 on top of my Windows 98SE installation? Would Windows 2000 use the drivers already installed in Windows 98SE to read the raid drive?

Thanks for any help given::
A desperate UKspace!

 

[stultus]

Okay! Well at least you have a working computer this time around

IIRC, the important file to find in those Promise builds is &quot;TXTSETUP.OEM&quot;. This is in the root directory of the zipfile, and so should be in the root directory of the floppy. This file then tells Win2K setup, &quot;Oops, look in /WIN2000 for the drivers.&quot; So you should just point setup to A:\

I think that is your problem. It shouldn't take but a minute to check.

EDIT: Whoa, I'm just now reading your post about partitioning and boot magic etc etc. You don't want or need any of that. If you install Win2K off of the CD onto a drive with Win98, Win2K has it's own little program that will let you repartition right there and/or let you select which OS to run on bootup. You don't need third party software for this.

 

[UKspace]

Thanks for the reply Stultus! I knew you wouldn't let me down!

Well I have been to deja news and many people have got the exact same problem as me, I have tried putting just the win2000 folder, with TEXTSETUP.OEM and ultra on the disk and the win2000 folder in the root of the floppy disk.

I have tried loads of different permutations of these files but all of them don't work. Windows will say &quot;Windows 2000 ATA100 Driver&quot; and lets me select it, but then when I press Enter to contiune I get the Blue Screen with INACCESSABLE_BOOT_DRIVE.

EDIT: Just seen someone with a very similar system to mine get some drivers of an FTP site that worked for him, May as well try that. I'll keep you posted.

 

[stultus]

Hmm. I'm sure there's a Win2000 guru here who could help you for real, but until that happens I'll keep trying!

As a completely different approach, have you tried booting off of the Win2000 CD and installing from there? I recall you saying that you've been running it from within Win98 to start the setup. I don't know if this would make any difference, but since we're all getting desperate, it's worth a shot. That's how I got mine to work.

You might try changing the topic to &quot;Can't install Win2000 on A7V133 RAID&quot; and moving to general hardware. It might grab more people's attention.