Not detecting hard drive

[Densun 0]

When I try doing a complete install of W2K, it gives a message that no hard drive was detected. This pops up when I press enter to continue with installation right at the beginning. I know it's working because I'm running Windows 98 on it right now. Could it be because it's a ATA-100? I also tried doing the complete install by starting it within Win98. This way causes a blue screen error where the no hard drive error was coming up.

[ThC 129 0]

umm brain fart...oh now i remember. When win2k setup loads and it asks to press f6 for any SCSI or raid cards press that and make sure you have w2k drivers on a floppy and point the setup to that and you should be golden

[Densun 0]

Even though it's an IDE and not RAID or SCSI?

[Densun 0]

I just noticed that Via has some bus master updates for Windows 2000. Should those be installed before installing W2K?

[Brian Frank 0]

Look, I dont know your mobo, but Ive got an Asus A7V and here's what I did. Load the drivers from the motherboard or scsi or raid card onto a floppy. If they wont fit or you just want to get Win2k installed just plug it into the standard IDE controller if possible. If you only have 2 ATA100 controllers on the mobo, you will not have any problems unless the board is bad or some bios setting.

Now that Im totally off what I was saying about loading drivers onto a floppy. If they fit, and they should, press F6 when Win2k is setting up and later on it will ask for the manufacturer driver disk. Setup cant use the CD-ROM for any drivers, so it is important that the necessary drivers are on floppy.

 

Could you give us your mobo or scsi/ata100/raid card. Plugging the hard drive into the regular, not additional, IDE controllers should give you no problems. The C129 is right about F6.

When youve got a problem, specifics really help us give you a better picture.

 

The easiest thing to do is plug the hard drive into the standard controller, load Windows, install the driver, then switch the hard drive to the ATA100.

The Via busmaster drivers will not have anything important to do with ata100 as far as getting your system to run. If the ATA100 controller, additional ones only, doesnt work still, check your bios and make sure the controller is enabled to load but not boot off the ata100 until windows is loaded.

[CUViper 0]

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Densun:
Even though it's an IDE and not RAID or SCSI?</font>

Yes, because it's ATA-100. Try the F6 thing that ThC 129 mentioned.

[Wolf87 0]

Windows 2000 cannot detect ATA 66 or ATA 100 when it reboots during installation.

 

Brian Frank offered the best idea: keep it simple amd install on a standard controller.

 

After full installation switch the hard disk to the ATA 100 controller and it will then be recognized by Windows 2000.

[Densun 0]

I also have an Asus A7V with the Promise Ultra 100 IDE drivers installed. I did put the drivers onto a floppy and pressed F6, but it said it could not find a certain file. I had copied the Windows 2000 directory drivers from the A7V CD.

[Densun 0]

Never mind! I had to copy something from another directory as well. It's installing now.

[Brian Frank 0]

I thought so. Ive tried loading 98 straight off the ata100s, but I never was successful, mainly because I had no way to add a driver on the install with 98.