Re: Basic Win2K Installation Problem

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I thought about it. Actually if you hit F6, Windows will ask you to insert diskette into A:. Any way, my motherboard installation disk is a CD, so there is no way to provide the drivers from A:. Besides I understand that F6 method is needd when a new SATA drive is not recognized such as when a SATA drive is connected via an added SATA controller card on the mobo. I believe my ASUS mobo integrates a SATA controller. In my case the drive is in fact recognized, can be partitioned and formatted even onto which files are copied. As a matter of fact I have installed Win2K and WinXP on other SATA disks (500 GB, 1 TB, 1.5 TB) without F6 or any other complication. Am I still missing something important?

John John - MVP wrote:

You need to use the F6 method to supply the SATA controller drivers (Mass Storage Drivers) to the Windows 2000 setup program, or you can go in the BIOS and see if you can set the drive to IDE mode.

John

Beyond X wrote:

I have installed Win2K on harddrives a number of times without problems.
This time I encounter a frustrating problem that I kave no idea about what is causing. Can someone tell?

I got a new 1 TB drive (a Seagate SATA) and using another computer I partitioned it into 50 GB for system and the rest for sorage. The two partitions were formatted for NTFS file system.
With Win2K Pro SP4 CD in the CD drive I started installation. After files were copied, the screen showed two partitions:
C: Unformatted or damaged 47682 MB
-- Unformatted or damaged 906187 MB

Because the partitions were already formatted, I wondered why Windows sees it differently, but I selected C: and continued for reformatting.

After formatting was completed, it started to copying files onto the partition. Up to this stage things were normal as I have seen in previous installation. What happened next is the problem.

Normally the next step is automatic reboot and newly loaded Windows starts for additional setting-up. In this case, however, it went back to CD and started the whole thing anew. The computer did not even show "hit any key" for switching CD. Just for a chance I removed CD and restarted the computer hoping that the disk had been loaded with the basic system. No luck.
Next I tried to repair the upposed-to-be-already-loaded system by selecting R option, but the screen showed : cannot find any Windows installation".
Next I re-tried installation as if it was for the first time. When it came to select partition, I gasped seeing four partitions with various sizes. How were they created? Without choice I created a 50 GB partition and reformatted it as it asked and went ahead. The result was same.

Finally I suspected that the disk itself got some defect in the area where boot system such as MBA. So I tested the disk by choosing Recovery Console and CHKDSK /p /r. The result showed several sectors had been repaired. Then I used Seaagate Disk Wizard for formatting and partitioning. With this supposed-to-be ready disk I started the Windows installation. The result was same, that is, it deviated into the initial file copying from CD following the first reboot step.

I repeated those things and I am nowhere to go.

Is it possible that the disk is natively defective in the first sector which is to be used for boot system that cannot be detected by Windows?
Any ideas or suggestions will be appreciated.
So I chose to repeat the whole installatioattempted to
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