Windows 2000 Setup

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I am trying to install Win2000 on a machine that currently has WinXP home
installed. I placed the Win2000 setup disc in the CD drive and the computer
booted from that disc; however, after loading all of the drivers, the blue
set up screen gave me a message that "Setup did not find any hard disk drives
installed in your computer." My only option was to quit setup. There is a
250GB hard drive installed on the computer that will boot into XP home. How
do I go about installing Win2000 on this computer?
 
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ByTor

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I am trying to install Win2000 on a machine that currently has WinXP home
installed. I placed the Win2000 setup disc in the CD drive and the computer
booted from that disc; however, after loading all of the drivers, the blue
set up screen gave me a message that "Setup did not find any hard disk drives
installed in your computer." My only option was to quit setup. There is a
250GB hard drive installed on the computer that will boot into XP home. How
do I go about installing Win2000 on this computer?
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SATA connection maybe?? Are you formatting an area to house the install?
I wouldn't wanna guess anymore unless you post some specs.

Another issue you may have, as I never done it this way, win2k may not
load the boot files to XP as you are putting an older version of windows
after a newer version you may need the XP disk to add boot
files.........My case I use third party boot managers as windozes
management sucks..........
 
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Bruce Chambers

IrishSwede said:
I am trying to install Win2000 on a machine that currently has WinXP home
installed. I placed the Win2000 setup disc in the CD drive and the computer
booted from that disc; however, after loading all of the drivers, the blue
set up screen gave me a message that "Setup did not find any hard disk drives
installed in your computer." My only option was to quit setup. There is a
250GB hard drive installed on the computer that will boot into XP home. How
do I go about installing Win2000 on this computer?
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It could be that the Win2K installation CD doesn't include the
drivers for your PC's specific model of SCSI or IDE controller. You
may need to get them from the controller's/motherboard's manufacturer.
Very early in the boot process, just after having booted from the Win2K
CD, the screen will display the words to the effect: "Setup is examining
your system." Press <F6> when this happens, and have the Win2K-specific
drivers for your SCSI/IDE controller available on a floppy disk.



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Dave Patrick

To do a clean install, either boot the Windows 2000 install CD-Rom or setup
disks. 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.

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.

Be sure to apply these to your new install before connecting to any network.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/6/A/E6A04295-D2A8-40D0-A0C5-241BFECD095E/W2KSP4_EN.EXE
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-043.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-049.mspx

You didn't mention the drive controller (possibly SCSI, or ultra DMA, or
ATA100, or raid, or serial ATA), but you may 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 install you can apply the reghack in this article.

48-Bit LBA Support for ATAPI Disk Drives in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=305098

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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|I am trying to install Win2000 on a machine that currently has WinXP home
| installed. I placed the Win2000 setup disc in the CD drive and the
computer
| booted from that disc; however, after loading all of the drivers, the blue
| set up screen gave me a message that "Setup did not find any hard disk
drives
| installed in your computer." My only option was to quit setup. There is
a
| 250GB hard drive installed on the computer that will boot into XP home.
How
| do I go about installing Win2000 on this computer?
 
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Dave Patrick

Best to boot the CD-Rom.

If you need to install third party mass storage drivers you'll need to temp
connect a floppy drive.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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| Thanks for all of the tips. What do I do if my computer came without a
| floppy drive?
 
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Bruce Chambers

IrishSwede said:
Thanks for all of the tips. What do I do if my computer came without a
floppy drive?
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Purchase and install one? Or ask the computer manufacturer how they
expect you to install additional drivers during installation.

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ByTor

(e-mail address removed), =?Utf-8?B?SXJpc2hTd2VkZQ==?=
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Thanks for all of the tips. What do I do if my computer came without a
floppy drive?
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Burn them to a CD-RW............Providing your machine has one of those
also.
 
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Dave Patrick

Text mode portion of setup requires mass storage drivers to come from a 3.5"
floppy drive.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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| Burn them to a CD-RW............Providing your machine has one of those
| also.
|
 
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ByTor

Text mode portion of setup requires mass storage drivers to come from a 3.5"
floppy drive.
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Ooops, my bad, realized that after I posted it......Thanks for the
correction.
 
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Dave Patrick

No problem. :)

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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:
| Ooops, my bad, realized that after I posted it......Thanks for the
| correction.
|
 
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ByTor

No problem. :)
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Okay...........

BTW: Did you happen to see an issue I posted a question for about file
transfers across a network? Any ideas?
Subject line: "Single file transfer across network, good.....Multiple
tranfer corrupt??"

Thanks in advance............
 

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