when I try to install windows 2000...

[jamesey]

I get a BSOD saying

inaccessible boot device. what's up with that?

 

[gsaldivar]

"...IBM 30 gigs 75GXP..."

hmmm.... anyone want to take a guess here?

 

[jamesey]

hahah. I can install other OS's though...

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

if it's on something like a promise ATA/100 card or one of the ones on your mobo - hook up your hard drive to the regular IDE ports on your Mobo..I had the same problem with Win2k and that solved it.

 

[gsaldivar]

Ah ok - I remember having this problem when I started using the ATA100 connector on my A7V. I had to put the boot drive back on the standard ATA66 bus, install the Promise driver, and then booted off the ATA100 bus perfectly.

I suspect your problem is similar. If your Abit MB uses a Promise controller or equivalent, install the driver before you attempt booting off of the faster bus..

 

[Quickfingerz]

you have to install the correct RAID driver for your motherboard before installing win2k.

 

[MasterHoss]

Yeah, for Win2K, download the proper ATA100 driver and copy it to a floppy...during the Win2k installation, you are prompted for "add on hardware" or something like that. That's when you insert your floppy and ......

 

[jamesey]

anyone know the proper raid driver for the ABIT BX -133?
it uses the highpoint 3.70 raid controller

 

[gsaldivar]

Link

"BX133-RAID" --> "HPT 370 Driver for Windows"

 

[renfield33]

make sure you hit "s" during the install when it asks for a supplementary storage driver, otherwise it will never ask you

 

[jamesey]

thanks.