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Installing W2K on 2nd drive

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rb56

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I just install a Maxtor 20GB drive on a PCI adapter card. I want to install W2K on the drive but when I start the install it dosen't give me the drive as an option. The only thing that it is showing is the two partitions on my main drive. Any ideas as to how I can install to my second drive.

As always thanks
rb56
 
i think your adapter might not be supported in the win2k setup program. i don't know of any workarounds.
 
Does your adapter card come with drivers? Try to press F6 when it tells you to do so during the start of the "blue screen" setup phase. Then insert the disk that contain the w2k drivers when prompted to do so.
 
I had a similar problem. Both of my hard drives sit on the CMD ATA/66 controller ports on my Asus CUBX. The upshot is that the Win2K installation can't handle it properly and dies. And the F6 thing to import drivers during the process doesn't work very reliably (at least with my set up).

Try this (it's what I did).

Open up and reconfigure your system temporarily. Move the new drive to one of your standard IDE ports. You'll need to make sure your CD-ROM drive is on one of them too (i.e. - have both hard drives as master on the two standard IDE ports with the CD-ROM as slave on one of them).

OK once you've done that, go through the Win2K installation procedure. It should install quite happily onto the second drive.

Once it's up and running, install the drivers for your PCI IDE card and make sure that Windows 2000 can see the extra IDE channels.

Shut down and put all the hardware back how you want it.

Boot, and 2K should come up OK.
 
One caveat: the drive letter on which w2k will run must be the same as the drive letter on which it is installed, else you'll have logon problems unless you first do some registry editing before you move the drive.
 
Thanks again I'm in the process of loading W2K (switched to sec IDE) I have read that I shouldn't install 4in1 drivers later than ver. 4.25a. Should I install all the drivers in the ver??

rb56
 
I've installed the 4.28 ver 4in1 drivers and it seemed to go OK.

The trouble I'm having now is that every time I go online two things happen. 1st when I click explorer it says that the connection isn't available, I click try again and it connects. Then it will lock up after surfing a page or two. I'm on cable with a router on my system if that makes any difference. As far as I know I didn't miss anything in the network setup, set it up the same as with 98SE.

It did lock a couple of times before I installed the 4in1. What am I missing here I thought this was suppose to be a stable system? I know that with as many of you that are using W2K it has got to be something that I've got set up wrong.

Any help would be appreciated
rb56
 
installed the drivers for the ide controller and switched the HD w/W2k back to it now W2k hangs at the startup page??
 
Damn, that's really unfortunate. Unless there is a problem with how the drivers installed it may be that this just isn't going to work. Don't give up yet though as others may have an answer.

But looking at it from another angle - why run the new drive off the PCI card? You've got two IDE channels on the mobo, so why not use those for the HDs and use the PCI IDE card for your CDs?
 
switched the 2nd HD to the sec IDE on the board and it's booting to W2K again. I still won't log on to internet explorer the first time and locks up as soon as I go to a page or two. I'm going to check the network settings again but being somewhat different than 98SE it's hit and miss.

ideas anyone?

rb56
 
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