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Upgrading WIN98>WIN2K problem

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suklee

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I'm trying to upgrade my friend's WIN98SE to Windows 2000 Professional. His system is as follows:

T-Bird 1000, not overclocked
Asus A7V133, with 1004 BIOS
30 Gig HD, hooked up to the Promise ATA100 controller

I downloaded the drivers at here and pressed F6 to specify it in the setup (Win2000 Promise UltraATA100 controller).

I'm getting the following blue screen when going through the install:

*** STOP: 0X0000007B (0XXxxXXxx, etc. etc)
INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

HELP!!! Is this a problem with the controller? Would a "Clean" format/install be better than upgrading? If it is I'll tell him to do that!

TIA
 
Try installing with the drive connected to a ATA/66 channel. After OS install, install ULTRA/100 drivers and then switch the drive to ATA/100 channel. Also, you need to use the ASUS drivers. The promise drivers only work with the add-in cards.
 
Those should be the correct drivers: you just have to put them on a floppy. You do have to physically move the cable connection to the ATA/66 to try that method (that's how I installed W2K on my comp because I only had the ASUS drivers on CD).
 
It turns out that the drivers from Asus' site was build 33. Using those solved the problem! Thanks Jerr
 
What about a mobo that doesnt have any less than ATA100 controllers?? My new mobo only has ata100
Will putting the promise drivers on a disk work
 
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