Installing win2000

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06-18-2003, 07:36 PM
jzinckgra

Installing win2000

I've slapped together a puter to use at work and am having difficulty getting win2000 to load. The puter is a T-bird 900mhz with asus a7v133a board, 384MB mushkin RAM, ATI 7200. I'm using parts of an old system, which includes a generic floppy, CD ROM and a Maxtor 3 Gig HD. The HD is about 5 years old and still has win98 on it. The computer will try and load win98 upon startup, but quickly gives me the fatal error screen cause it's trying to recognize all these newer components. So I try and boot the win2000 CD, which gets through the initial installation of some of the preliminary software, but when it prompts me to do the rest of the install, I get an error saying no harddrive can be found. Now I know there is a HD, cause I can see it in both the BIOS and when win98 trys to start. Is is possible that because the drive is so old, that I need to do the traditional fdisk/format option with a boot disk, rather than trying to get it formatted during the win2000 install?
06-18-2003, 07:52 PM
angomeka

holly crap a 3gb drive for win2k i hope you dont plan to do much with it. LOL!!! Hm.. about your issue thou your pc sees it in the bios but not in the setup. Have you checked your jumpers? That could do it if the cdrom and the hd are both master.
06-18-2003, 08:10 PM
jzinckgra

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holly crap a 3gb drive for win2k i hope you dont plan to do much with it. LOL!!! Hm.. about your issue thou your pc sees it in the bios but not in the setup. Have you checked your jumpers? That could do it if the cdrom and the hd are both master.

Good size HD, eh? :D Yeah, I won't need to store a lot of stuff on it, so it should be adequate. I assume you mean the jumpers on the back of the CDRom and HD and not any of the jumpers on the mb?
06-18-2003, 10:20 PM
rw96823

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Originally posted by jzinckgra

Good size HD, eh? :D Yeah, I won't need to store a lot of stuff on it, so it should be adequate. I assume you mean the jumpers on the back of the CDRom and HD and not any of the jumpers on the mb?

That's it....check the type of cables you use too; you may have to set each to "cable-select" instead of master/slave.

:D