Unable to Install Windows 2000 on SATA drive
Thursday, May 19, 2005 at 12:48 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by rgbbw
(8 messages posted)
I just built a new computer with A-Bit VA-20 Mobo, AMD Sempron 2500+ (Athalon 1600),
512 MB RAM, and WD 120 GB SATA drive, with a CD drive and floppy drive out of the
closet. I partitioned the bejebers out of the SATA, and installed 4 versions of FreeDOS
(OK, 1 in extended partition doesn't boot) and 1 version of Suse Linux, with XOSL
multiboot loader running the show. After I was confident everything was stable, I
tried to Install Windows 2000 over one of the DOS partitions. It wouldn't recognize
the SATA drive - reported I had no C drive. Try as I might with any of the partitions,
it just wouldn't recognize it.
I went to the MS support site, and found someone with a similar problem. MS said
there was a problem with the W2000 install recognizing SATA drives, but they had
a "hotfix" (meaning - no guarantees to be bugfree, unlike the rest of MS SW). I contacted
them with my problem, and they sent me a link to download the hotfix. Well, the hotfix
runs on the PC I don't have a problem with, not what I want. I burned it on CD and
tried to run it on the PC with the problem, and it wouldn't run, as Windows 2000
needs to be running first (Anybody see the movie "Catch 22"?). So I'm dead in the
water.
I wrote MS again and asked them how I resolve this problem, but they haven't answered
me, and it's been over a week.
I tried to install Windows 98 (maybe that would allow me to run the hotfix), but
the setup says that I need to have at least 16 MB of memory to install, and quits.
Apparently 512 MB isn't enough.
Anyway, the Linux and FreeDOS are running great, and I get to play all those old
DOS games I have from the 80's.
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