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Installing Promise ATA100 Controller Card

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ares32585

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I just bought one of these and I was wondering if there was anything special I have to do since I will be doing a fresh install of Windows and putting my boot drive on the card. How exactly would I go about installing it?
Thanks for any help you can give.
 
Just install it normally. Put in the card, plug the hard drive in the card. If you can format and do everything normally, you should have no problem.

IF Windows gives you Windows protection error, clear the cmos... that's the usual remedy for Promise cards.

IF Windows can't detect the card, but you still boot fine, make sure you install the drivers from Promise's website.

Nothing too big.
 
I tried to add the Promise 100 to my system that had just had the WinME upgrade inflicted upon it. I followed the Win95/98 directions that came with the card. Somehow, some files Windows needed to boot got hosed and I decided a total fresh intstall was best at that point.

On the fresh install, I couldn't get the system to see the WD Caviar drive if it was plugged into the Promise. So, I followed the Promise WinNT directions to put the hard drive on the mobo controller, plug in the Promise card empty, install the OS and the Promise driver. Then shutdown, move hd to Promise and reboot. Works fine. The recent WD drives come with ATA66 mode enabled and everything works great. Even WinME.
 
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