Installing WIN2K on a Machine with ALTRA ATA CARD

[Guest]

I used to work on the Machine with WIN2K. I bought one 120
GB HDD from Western Digital and as the existing BIOS is
not supporting the same, went for a PROMISE ATA100 Dual
Channel Control Card.

While installing WIN2K, system went to SETUP screen, and
errored out with message "Setup did not find any hard disk
drives installed in your computer".

On searching the error message I found in Microsoft site,
this was an issue on WIN2K and it was not supporting
ATA100, which was fixed on SP2. The alternative suggested
was to press F6 and manually give the OEM / Driver files.
As I did not see any such file, I downloaded the drivers
from another site for the PROMISE ATA100 card that I
have. Even after that, it is not reconnizing the hard
disk.

Again on searching, I find it is possible that the driver
that we selected from Floppy, was over written by the
subsequent files that were loaded from CD. I did not get a
clear picture, if I go through the booting from Floopy
route, which files to be replaced.

All the explanations state the steps I have taken till
now.

Any suggestions on how to install WIN2K on my new HDD,
will be highly appreciated.

Regards.

 

[philo]

I used to work on the Machine with WIN2K. I bought one 120
GB HDD from Western Digital and as the existing BIOS is
not supporting the same, went for a PROMISE ATA100 Dual
Channel Control Card.

While installing WIN2K, system went to SETUP screen, and
errored out with message "Setup did not find any hard disk
drives installed in your computer".

at the beginning of the installtion
you should have been given the opportunity to install the drivers

 

[Guest]

ya i have that.
Microsoft has released a patch to resolve the following
issue: Windows 2000 does not support ATA-100 (Mode 5) for
IDE hard disks. All ATA-100 IDE hard disks that are used
with Windows 2000 default to ATA-66 (Mode 4).
This is the fix. but how to apply when instaling.I can fix
after instlation.

 

[philo]

ya i have that.
Microsoft has released a patch to resolve the following
issue: Windows 2000 does not support ATA-100 (Mode 5) for
IDE hard disks. All ATA-100 IDE hard disks that are used
with Windows 2000 default to ATA-66 (Mode 4).
This is the fix. but how to apply when instaling.I can fix
after instlation.

I don't know...sorry. Defaulting to ATA-66 should not prevent you from
booting...but with Microsoft who knows?

 

[\(JD\)]

You can integrate that into your installation media probably if it's a
hotfix. There are quite a few articles describing methods of incorporating
hotfixes and service packs into your installation media.

(JD)