re: Unable to Install Windows 2000 on SATA drive
Thursday, May 19, 2005 at 12:37 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by JT
(61 messages posted)
There could be two reasons for your problems.
First, like Curt R mentioned in the above post, you'll need the SATA drivers on a
floppy. Go
here for VA-20 drivers
And get the SATA
Floppy drivers here
Also, since you are using a bootloader - I'm not familiar with the workings of XOSL
- the partition you are wishing to install to may have its partition type modified
by the bootloader. (I used to use BootMagic and Windows installers would see some
non-selected partitions as hidden OS/2.) You may need to temporarily disable the
bootloader and choose your desired destination partition as the bootable one then
run the Windows 2000 CD setup.
Hope this helps,
JT |
On Thursday, May 19, 2005 at 12:48 am, rgbbw wrote:
>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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