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how to install win2k on scsi hard drive

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fishy101

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Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I am quite new at this.

I have a WD 4.36gb scsi hard drive(enterprise) and an Adaptec 2940UW scsi card, and I am trying to install win2k on the hard drive. However, I ran into trouble trying to get the system to recognize the hard drive. I was able to format and verify the hard drive's parity using the scsi utility, yet when I boot into dos using a win98 boot disk, I wasnot able to use fdisk to prep the hard drive for installation. More specifically, fdisk returns an error saying "not enough space for a dos partition."

Does anyone care to englighten me on how to install win2k on scsi in general? Is there a good site out there that has thorough how-tos on this kind of stuff? Thanks.

 
Fishy101- see the comment that I just posted this thread. The same thing applies to what you are trying to do execpt that with NT4 you HAVE to push the F6 key at the black screen with "Setup is now checking your systems hardware" if you do not catch the prompt there then it will appear to install the OS but on first reboot the system will not find then HDD

 
Also it's not necessary to use Fdisk to setup partitions before you install W2k. W2K have it's own utility to setup partition on the fly during the installation process.
 
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