Win2000 Install not recognizing my hard drive!

[merrimackjay]

Help!

I am planning on installing Windows 2000 on my K6-II 450Mhz machine (256mb ram). I made all 4 boot disks and restarted. It got through all 4 disks then said press enter to install windows 2000. So I did and it said something like "Hard drive not found, windows 2000 cannot be installed"

WTF!?

I have a 60 gig Maxtor drive that supports ATA100. My motherboard doesn't, so I use the PCI ATA 100 adapter that came free with it. I assume that is why the win2000 floppies couldn't find my hard drive....... but what do I do about it?

Should I open up my machine and run my hard drive the regular way until its installed, then hook it back to the PCI card?

Or just screw the whole plan and just reinstall win98se?

Thanks for any help/advice you can give.

 

[Mist]

I ran a K62-500mhz with 384mb of memory and I couldn't get Win2K to run properly at all on that, so I think it may just be a harware limitation issue.

Michael.

 

[stash]

You need to install the drivers for your ATA 100 controller. They should be on a CD that came with the motherboard. They need to be copied to a floppy. Put the floppy in the drive after booting from the Windows CD and hit F6 when prompted (when you first see the blue install screen). After some files load from the CD, you will be prompted for your ATA drivers. Hit 'S', then enter. The drivers will be copied from the floppy. Then you can continue the installation normally.

Edit: just saw that you are using a PCI card that came with the hdd. There should still be drivers that came with the drive, and if not, they should be on Maxtor's website.

Edit2: A K6 450 and a 500 are plenty for Win2k, along with the memory you guys have.

 

[NogginBoink]

You need a floppy disk with the drivers for the PCI card.

You'll know it's the right floppy because it has a file called txtsetup.oem at the root of the drive.

Boot to the four floppies and when prompted press F6.

Noting will happen immediately. That's expected.

At disk 2 or 3, it'll ask you to specify additional mass storage controllers. Press S. Insert the floppy when prompted.

Continue setup as usual.

If you do not have this floppy disk, you must download it from the vendor.

You cannot use drivers on a CD. You need the txtsetup.oem file and the drivers it points to.

 

[KennyH]

^^^ What they said

 

[DaiShan]

Why don't you boot from CD? Go into your bios and set first boot device to cd-rom then put the cd in the drive and reboot, after that start the installation, partition etc, and when it asks if you have any third party scsi or raid drivers to install hit f6 and put the floppy with the drivers in the floppy drive, this should allow you to install the drivers, then you will be able to complete the installation.

 

[merrimackjay]

I would love to boot from CD...

Unfortunately, my Win2000 cd isn't bootable. I'm a MSDN subscriber and my win2000 cd is from that.

Is it easy to make my own boot CD?

If I make my own boot CD, can I make it install SP4 along with W2k all in one pop?

Thanks

-Jay

 

[RedFox1]

Combining the service pack files into the installation CD is called slipstreaming (I don't know why and I've never tried it.) I have a site bookmarked with instructions though, for some reason.

http://www.bink.nu/Bootcd/default.htm

It has instructions for making the CD bootable as well, along with some special tips for making the cds from MSDN discs. Let me know how it goes.

-Russ

 

[merrimackjay]

Hey Russdawg

Unfortunately, according to that page, you need to already be running win2k or XP on your machine to do the slipstream process

Thats a bummer. I might try making a non-SP4 boot CD though.

-Jay