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With both drives property jumpered and connected, either boot the Windows
2000 CD-Rom or setup disks. The set of four install disks can be created
from your Win2k 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.
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 and install to drive0
Depending on the drive controller (possibly SCSI, or ultra DMA, or ATA100,
or raid), you'll need to boot the Windows 2000 setup disks or CD-Rom and
*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 drive's 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.
After the Windows 2000 install, boot the XP CD-Rom and choose to install to
the unallocated space on drive1
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Regards,
Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Auschten said:
I have two hard drives. I would like to put XP Home on
[D:] and Win2kPro on [C:]. I have some XP stuff on [D:],
so I removed that drive so it would not conflict with the
2k install. When I boot to the 2k cd, I get an "Unknown
disk. There is no disk in this drive." error where I
should be able to partition/format the drive. I tried
XP's setup, and it had no problem seeing the drive.
So, I used fdisk to format the [C:] drive. Again, 2k
could not find the drive, while XP had no problem.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
.