Can I add drivers to Win2000 (or Win98) at boot time?

[Kwad Guy]

Here's the deal. I am trying to migrate my Win2000 and
Win98 installations from a machine that runs on IDE
drives to one that runs on SCSI drives. If I try
to simply copy the boot drive for the SCSI machine,
Win2000 bails out after the "now loading Win2000"
screen with a "can't find boot device" screen. Looks
like unless I load the appropriate SCSI drivers for this
machine, it doesn't see the drive.

My question is: Is there a way to load the drivers during
the boot process (before it gets to the "can't find boot
device" error screen, obviously)?

Same question for Win98.

(And of course I could load the drivers on the IDE
machine then do the migration, but for a few reasons
I'd rather not do it that way, if there's another
possibility).

Kwad

 

[Kwad Guy]

ttt

 

[Topochicho]

Not even pretending to know an answer, but I am willing to offer a possibility... Have you tried installing the DOS SCSI drivers to a floppy or a non SCSI folder and then putting the calls for them in the Autoexec? Don't know if this would work but sounds like a reasonable solution. Of course once your booted you would want to load the win drivers and get rid of the others

 

[obenton]

The SCSI card should load its BIOS if a bootable drive is present, and you shouldn't need DOS drivers. The boot drive, I believe, has to come up as C: (whose root should contain ntldr and the other NT boot files), although w2k system files could be installed elsewhere. A possible problem is that, with a changed drive letter configuration, boot.ini menu is not pointing to the correct partitions for the OS's it is set up to boot - if so, edit boot.ini to point to the changed partition locations.

 

[Daniel]

I haven't switched disk subsystems myself but have you tried making win2k boot disks and running a repair or something and giving it the drivers then?