I am trying to do a clean installation of Win98SE onto a RAID setup of 2 x 30GB Deskstars. system info below:
Iwill KK266-R
T-bird 1 Ghz
2 30GB IBM 75Gxp's -- both set as masters and attached to seperate RAID controllers
Radeon AIW
etc..
The problem: I boot to a DOS prompt, run setup from the Win CD, it starts, goes through the disk check, goes to the install screen, brings up the usual window that says something about the installation wizard is preparing your system for installation, runs the progress bar up to 100%, sits for a few seconds, then freezes. When it freezes, it emits a continuous tone, and a dos-style dialog box is shown on the screen asking "Attempt Writing Boot Sector! Proceed writing (Y/N)?", and the screen gets a few artifacts as normal when Windows freezes. The dos-style dialog box and the question it asks are exactly like what fdisk does when the first partition is created, except when it comes up as the computer freezes, it is only partially completed -- all the text is there, but the colors do not show properly (it is normally red with flashing white lettering, but when the computer freezes, the box is just blakc with normal white lettering.)
I had no trouble configuring the RAID array; partitioned and formatted the drive, and I even copied a system disk onto it. I had no problems booting to a DOS prompt from the HDD. On my most recent attempt, I followed the procedure given on icronic (on this page) -- to the letter, with the exception of using a 32 kb stripe size (and adjusting the format statement accordingly). It doesn't help. The problem occurs every time I try to install.
It never freezes in fdisk when that dialog box appears.
Does anyone have any ideas for how to correct this?
David
Iwill KK266-R
T-bird 1 Ghz
2 30GB IBM 75Gxp's -- both set as masters and attached to seperate RAID controllers
Radeon AIW
etc..
The problem: I boot to a DOS prompt, run setup from the Win CD, it starts, goes through the disk check, goes to the install screen, brings up the usual window that says something about the installation wizard is preparing your system for installation, runs the progress bar up to 100%, sits for a few seconds, then freezes. When it freezes, it emits a continuous tone, and a dos-style dialog box is shown on the screen asking "Attempt Writing Boot Sector! Proceed writing (Y/N)?", and the screen gets a few artifacts as normal when Windows freezes. The dos-style dialog box and the question it asks are exactly like what fdisk does when the first partition is created, except when it comes up as the computer freezes, it is only partially completed -- all the text is there, but the colors do not show properly (it is normally red with flashing white lettering, but when the computer freezes, the box is just blakc with normal white lettering.)
I had no trouble configuring the RAID array; partitioned and formatted the drive, and I even copied a system disk onto it. I had no problems booting to a DOS prompt from the HDD. On my most recent attempt, I followed the procedure given on icronic (on this page) -- to the letter, with the exception of using a 32 kb stripe size (and adjusting the format statement accordingly). It doesn't help. The problem occurs every time I try to install.
It never freezes in fdisk when that dialog box appears.
Does anyone have any ideas for how to correct this?
David