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Problem with new W2K install on new hard drive!

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hito

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My situation is as follows... I installed a new WD 80GB (Special Edition) into my system. So now i got one 80GB hard drive(old one already in system) and the new one hooked up into the promise raid ide channels. The jumper is set for ATA100, as I don't intend on using raid for this system. Anyhow, i've been trying to install W2K onto my new hard drive with no luck. Been trying to install the OS 15+ times literally! I disconnected the other drives leaving only the new one and a cd-rom. Plugged one into regular ide and other into raid... and then both into regular ide, both didnt work. It always seem to give me a error about how file copied isnt right or something like that, and gives me an option to quit, skip, or try again. Trying again does nothing, so i'm really left with the option of quitting the install or skipping it. Given those choices I always skip, and when it's done copying the files, I get a BSOD everytime. Any ideas on what is going on? How to fix this? Thanks for reading my long post, and hope you could help me out on this😕
 
You should put the new drive as the Master on the first channel of the built in IDE (not the Promise RAID controller). For the install, you may as well just disconnect your old drive. So, put the HD as the master on Channel 1, and the CD drive on Channel 2 (or 0 and 1 if you like to name them like that).
 
It would probably be helpful if you provided the actual error message, rather than "something like that", as well as the exact events that occur in the order they occur.

Are the master/slave jumpers on the drive properly set, and the drives are being detected by the BIOS during POST? I don't know what board you have so I don't know what setting a jumper to ATA100 does. I assume that during the boot you still see the RAID controller's BIOS pop up and detecting drives; does the drive show up during that process?

When you boot to the Win2k CD, does it show the full 80GB of the drive being available for the install? Have you let it format the partition before installing? Are you trying to install to a single large 80GB partition? Does the drive show up in the install process when it's connected to the RAID controller port (since usually you'd need to use a driver disk to allow the Setup program to see a secondary controller)? Have you tried it with just the new 80GB drive as primary master and your CD drive as secondary master, without the old drive installed at all and nothing on the RAID ports?
 
Thanks for the replies guys 🙂

As to the exact message I get from the BSOD, I can't give that info as of yet, formatting the drive atm. Will get back to you on that 😉

As for the hard drives, I have had them set for master, when they were in the channels. I only have four devices, so each drive gets their own channel. I tried cable select for the heck of it aswell. The motherboard I have in the system is a Asus A7V266-E. As for the ATA100, this board has the option of whether I want to use the raid channels as raid or just regular ATA100 channels. I'm currently using them as ATA100 channels for my hard drives. When I start up the system, I do see the promise BIOS(detecting drives), both hard drives appear on the list.(mode 5).

When I boot up the system and try to install W2k, it does indeed show my drive with its fully capacity, with a little less due to the system files, but basically all there. (as i'm doing format c: /s). The drive is being used as a full one partition 80GB drive. The drive does show up as being a option of whether or not I want to install it on there, and so thats what i select. Yes, I have tried to just connect the hard drive to primary channel on the board as master, and a cd-rom on secondary master, and nothing on raid channels. But still no luck. The thing is, that the file not copied correctly message happens randomly throughout the copying process of the files, as in not always the same file. Sorry I cant give a more accurate description, but will give one asap when the drive is ready for another round 🙂
 
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