Installing 2000 pro onto a SCSI drive

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Jack

I have a pentium III using a SCSI PCI card to run a 6gig SCSI hard disk. The
2000 install CD recognizes the drive, formats it NTSF and installs 2000
seemingly with no problem. But when I reboot after the installation, a
message appears, 'no system disk'. The bios is set to boot from SCSI.

Any help would be much appreciated.
 
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Dave Patrick

You'll want to boot the Windows 2000 setup disks or CD-Rom. The set of four
install disks can be created from your Windows 2000 CD-Rom; change to the
\bootdisk directory on the CD-Rom and execute makeboot.exe (from dos) or
makebt32.exe (from 32 bit) and follow the prompts.

Then *F6* very early and very important (at setup is inspecting your system)
in the setup to prevent drive controller detection, and select S to specify
additional drivers. Then later you'll be prompted to insert the manufacturer
supplied Windows 2000 driver for your SCSI controller in drive "A"

If you wait and then S to specify additional drivers, then it may be too
late as Windows 2000 Setup at this point may have already assigned the
resources your drive's controller is wanting to use.

When you get to the point, delete the existing NTFS and or other partitions
found. After you delete the partition(s) abort the install, then again
restart the pc booting the CD-Rom or setup disks to avoid unexpected drive
letter assignments with your new install.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
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:
| I have a pentium III using a SCSI PCI card to run a 6gig SCSI hard disk.
The
| 2000 install CD recognizes the drive, formats it NTSF and installs 2000
| seemingly with no problem. But when I reboot after the installation, a
| message appears, 'no system disk'. The bios is set to boot from SCSI.
|
| Any help would be much appreciated.
|
 

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