clean install from w2k upgrade.

[Geoff McDowall 0]

I want to replace the main drive on my pc. It's quite old PII 300 with 256mb ram. I have a aha-2940 scsi card. In the manual it supports drives up to 8gb. I wish to install a 40 gb hard drive. If I set up 5 8gb partitions will I be able to install it? Also I assume it is possible to install an upgrade of the os if you have the disks from the previous os In this case nt4? Or do I have to install nt4 and then upgrade it?

thanks

[jmmijo 1]

I would recommend making sure that the SCSI host adapter is up to date, try using Adaptec's support site for this controller to download and flash the latest firmware and to get the latest device drivers.

 

Also note that SCSI HD's have differing capacities compared to ATA/IDE/UDMA HD's. There isn't any 40GB SCSI drives, they go something like this:

 

2.1GB, 4.3/4.5GB, 9.1GB, 18.2GB, 36.4/36.7GB and so on. Usually they are rounded down to the nearest whole number for the capacity

 

As for the partitions, well that's something you have to decide on but if you're gonna install Win 2K, there's no need to do this, just use one large partition instead under NTFS.

 

You shouldn't need to install NT4 first then upgrade. If you only have the Upgrade edition of Win 2K, this is alright, just have your NT4 media handy.

 

Boot from the Win 2K install CD, then choose the drive/partition you want to install the OS onto, then at some point it will ask for the Original qualifying media, usually will work with a Win 9x/NT cd, then it will continue the installation

[Geoff McDowall 0]

Thanks alot. I'll check out Adaptecs site.