Preparing a Win2k drive

[jdwright]

Got a buddy who just bought a machine with a Asus a7v socket A mobo. He has a 19gig 7200rpm/66+ hd. It came with WinME, but he wants to use Win2k. To prepare the primary drive, I created a new partition, fdisked the /mbr, and formatted as a system disk. However, the Win2k installation doesn't seem to be able to see the disk to install to it. BTW, I did this stuff with a Win98 Startup disk...could that be the problem?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide 8)

 

[office boy]

You need to either press F6 durring install and install the promise Ultra100 drivers, or you need to plug the drive into the ATA-66 connectors (the upper ones) on the motherboard. And you don't really need to do any formatting or F-disking, because the Win2K install can do it all for you.