scsi

[Guest]

there was not a scsi newsgroup so i posted here. I am at work and one of the
computers hard drives failed and we do not have a spare except a scsi that
plugs into the card in the pci slot. But anyway when i bootup to a floppy of
a windows 98 cd it stops at this part "Pci bus scan complete". I looked on
the internet and it looks like the next step would have something to do with
the cdrom so i booted to a floppy without cdrom support that worked it was
able to format the hard drive. But i can not install windows 98 because if i
try to boot to a floppy with cdrom support or booting to the 98 cd it still
stops at the same message durring bootup "Pci bus scan complete" . If i try
to boot to a windows 2000 cd that works but when it gets to the part that
you normaly hit f8 it says "setup did not find a boot disk drives installed
in your computer"

Any ideas so i can install windows 98?

 

[Guest]

And what is your problem with Win XP??

 

[Yves Leclerc]

SCSI adapter (PCI slotted card) required to have a driver installed during
XP set up. Download the driver(s) from the manufacturer's web site and when
the XP install process is starting, look for <F6> an install 3rd party
drives. Press it and add the SCSI drivers.

 

[Ghostrider]

there was not a scsi newsgroup so i posted here. I am at work and one of the
computers hard drives failed and we do not have a spare except a scsi that
plugs into the card in the pci slot. But anyway when i bootup to a floppy of
a windows 98 cd it stops at this part "Pci bus scan complete". I looked on
the internet and it looks like the next step would have something to do with
the cdrom so i booted to a floppy without cdrom support that worked it was
able to format the hard drive. But i can not install windows 98 because if i
try to boot to a floppy with cdrom support or booting to the 98 cd it still
stops at the same message durring bootup "Pci bus scan complete" . If i try
to boot to a windows 2000 cd that works but when it gets to the part that
you normaly hit f8 it says "setup did not find a boot disk drives installed
in your computer"

Any ideas so i can install windows 98?

This is more of a Windows 98 setup question than
Windows 2000 as they have different approaches, IIRC,
for adding the proper SCSI drivers during setup. Visit
microsoft.public.win98.setup and re-post the question.
Using the Win98 setup floppy diskette is required.

 

[Ted]

You need to partition the drive and make it Active(bootable),
before it can be recognized as a bootable drive.