KinetiK

Hello! I have been struggling to install W2K on my friends PC for a number of days now and have yet to find a solution. I have a bare bones installation of Win98SE on the c: partition and I want to install W2K on the D partition. The problem is this: Whenever I get to the W2K installation blue screen, and the PC tells me that it is checking hardware, i keep getting the same error: "STOP -- (a whole mess of error numbers) -- INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE". The MB, as you know, has a Promise ATA100 controller on the MB. With the 1004C bios, I am able to disable the BIOS checking and I have. But I am still getting this error, even if I press F6 during startup to detect the external SCSI / RAID controller. Has anyone else had a problem with W2K installs and the 1004C bios update? Looking forward to your responses, KinetiK

Oh no! The cd only install didn't help things much I'm afraid... infact, it appears to have messed up my HD really really badly. I have a 20GB IBM Deskstar that is showing up in the W2K install screen as an 82GB monster. I take it that this isn't normal. /me the NT/W2K newbie hides from the Gods of NTdom

Hi, I currently have the hard drive plugged into the ATA66 IDE controller (that is, the NON-ATA100 one). I installed win98se on the ata66 controller, and then started an install of W2K. It crashed a number of times as i have indicated above. As an experiment, I changed the drive over to the ATA100 controller and tried to install w2k from there. w2k would say that it couldn't find the install files etc and crash. I had to go back to ATA66. I'm at a total loss now. =( Thanks for your help thusfar, though! KinetiK