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Problems with Win2k install on WD hard drive...Please help!

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Petro89

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Yo brothas!

After crossing my fingers yesterday in hopes that I wouldn't have many problems with hardware support, I finally decided to make the plunge and install win2k on my k6-3+ system.

I unhooked my win98 hard drive (western digital 20.5GB) and proceeded to install win2k from scratch on a 6GB drive. My intent was to try it out for a few days, and then put it on the 20 gigger if I had no problems.

Well, the install went fine, and remerkably, I had to get drivers for only one piece of hardware. I thought to myself that M$ had finally gotten it right. So I proceeded to format my 20 gigger for the win2k install.

Well, now I'm having problems. Win2k install gets to the point where it asks where I want to put the OS, and then it craps out. I prepared the rive in the same way I did the 6GB one-its empty and its on FAT32. If I choose to convert the drive to NTFS (as I did with the 6GB) it says something like "cannot create the /WINNT folder". If I choose to repartition it with NTFS, it just sits at 0% forever and there's no hard drive activity.

The drive is fine-I can install Win98 on it just fine, and it passes Western Digital's diagnostics with flying colors.

What's the deal here? I want it on the 20 gigger since its a 7200 RPM drive, and unlike the 6gig, its VERY QUIET.

Please help!
 
This is definitely an odd problem. I had a similar problem on a laptop once, but to get around it, I simply upgraded a barebones 98 install and that took care of it. If you don't want to attack it that way, you could install Win 2K on the 6 Gigabyte drive and then clone this drive to the 20 gig drive if you have a copy of Ghost or some other cloning software. Some hard drives ship with a utility that will allow you to clone a drive.

I also know that if you install Win2K on an ATA Raid Controller, that you need to specify drivers for the controller right away. If you don't, you will never successfully finish an installation. This is also true of NT. 98 can get by without the drivers until after the installation.

I have also seen NT and 2K get flaky like this if your ATA mode on your drive doesn't match the controller it is connected to. For example, an older BX or MVP3 chipset would only have an ATA33 controller but most new drives ship set to ATA66 or ATA100. To adjust the drive to the slower controller speed, you need to set the speed with a utility available from the web site of the manufacturer of the hard drive. Here is a link for the utility for Western Digital Drives:

Westen Digital Ultra ATA Manager

Read about it here.
 
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