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Win2k will not read from my ata100 drives

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LYHTSPD

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Happy Holidays everyone... or at least it will be when i get this $^#$@$%@ machine running!! 🙂

I volunteered myself to upgrade my mothers computer over my Winter Break from college. I have an abit be6-II ver 2 MB and an ata100 hard drive that i want to dump all the OS stuff on. While starting to install 2k, it would not reconize the ata100 drive for nothing. i moved it over to the ide channel and everything went fine. i figured it was the ata100 controller so when i got everything installed i found some "new" drivers from abit for the controller. I finally got both the cd-rom and burner to read from the ide channels... but when i put the HDD back on ata100 channel, Win2k gives me a STOP error before it complety loads saying that there is not a valid hard disk to read from. when i swtich it back to the ide channels, it works fine. the device manager does not flag any errors, the bios sees the ata100 drive... but win2k will not!! Please, I know it is Christmas eve, but i really need some advice on this guys and gals! Thanks so much!!

-Lyht
 
Did you load win2k sp2? It has the hotfix for ata100. Just win2k alone won't do it, it should see the ide bus, you just won't have ata100.
 
I have not installed it yet... but that was my next adventure. Ill give it a try and let you know if it worked... thanks Rusty!

-Lyht
 
well, i installed SP2, but it still will not see the ata100 drive. is there anything else i can try? thanks again... and MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!
 
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