Re: Parallel Installation does not recognize the original copy of Windows 2000

It doesn't see the other installation because it doesn't recognize the
driver controller. You must *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 serial ATA
controller (and any other non-natively supported drive controllers) in drive
"A"

There's no advantage to installing programs to a separate partition. You
loose the OS then the programs will need to be reinstalled anyway.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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"Michael Weinert" wrote:
| Hi,
|
| Parallel Installation does not recognize the original copy of Windows
2000:
|
| Due to many changes in hard- and software my W2k is getting on in years.
| Hence I want to do a parallel installation of Windows 2000, and I want
| to use my old W2k for months in parallel with my old irretrievable
| applications.
|
| I am using the Gigabyte motherboard GA-8IK1100 (Rev 2.0) with two serial
| ATA connectors and two UltraDMA IDE connectors. The two S-ATA connectors
| are set via BIOS to "SATA Portx configue as SATA Portx" (and "On-Chip
| SATA Manual", and "SATA RAID Function disabled"). All partitions are
| NTFS partitions.
|
| The old system resides on one (of two) S-ATA disk master (Maxtor1) with
| 3 partitions:
|
| C: (W2k-old) primary partition
| D: (Programs-old) logical partition
| E: (Data-old) logical partition
| F: (Documents-old) logical partition.
|
| I am trying to install the new system (by using the Windows 2000 CD-ROM)
| in to G: of a new IDE disk master (Samsung), which I had formated in
| advance like this:
|
| G: (W2k-new) primary partition
| H: (Programs-new) logical partition.
|
| In addition to a DVD-RW drive and a CD-RW drive my PC is equipped with a
| second S-ATA disk master(Maxtor2) formated as
|
| L: (Archive) primary partition
|
| and a second IDE disk slave (IBM) formated as
|
| M: (Test) primary partition.
|
| Thus the BIOS screen shows among others
|
| Standard CMOS Features
| IDE Channel 0 Master [SAMSUNG SP2514N]
| IDE Channel 0 Slave [IBM-DTLA-305030]
| IDE Channel 1 Master [LITE-ON DVDRW LDV-85]
| IDE Channel 1 Slave [CD-W54E]
| IDE Channel 2 Master [S_ATA1-Maxtor 6Y160M]
| IDE Channel 3 Master [S_ATA2-Maxtor 6Y160M].
|
| I tried to perform the parallel installation of Windows 2000 according to
| http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/266465/en-us?
|
| "Performing a parallel installation of Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003
| Note The Documents and Settings folder is not overwritten by this
| procedure.
| 1. Start your computer by using the Windows 2000 CD-ROM or the Windows
| Server 2003 CD-ROM.
| 2. After the Setup program finishes inspecting the computer's hardware,
| press ENTER to set up Windows.
| 3. Press the F8 key to agree to the Windows Licensing Agreement.
| 4. Press the ESC key to install a fresh copy of Windows.
| 5. Press ENTER to set up Windows on the selected partition."
|
| But I never get to see step 4; Immediately after step 3 (Windows
| Licensing Agreement) I am lead to step 5, where I am offered the
| following partition to install Windows 2000 to:
|
| C: (W2k-new)
| G: (Programs-new)
|
| D: (Test)
|
| E: (W2k-old)
| H: (Programs-old)
| I: (Data-old)
| J: (Documents-old)
|
| F: (Archive).
|
| That means, Setup did not regognize my original copy W2k-old of Windows
| 2000.
| How do I proceed?
|
| Can I continue with the Setup installing W2k-new in to C: without making
| my W2k-old unbootable/unusable? I want to use W2k-old for several months
| in parallel with my old irretrievable applications.
|
| Setup offers different drive letters than W2k-old; I think, because
| Setup can not know the drive letters given by W2k-old.
|
| Are my problems related to the mixture of S-ATA und IDE connectors?
| Are these problems resolvable in principle?
|
| BTW:
| My Windows Boot Disk is working fine with boot.ini like this:
|
| [boot loader]
| timeout=20
| default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
| [operating systems]
| multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
| Professional" /fastdetect
|
| C:\boot.ini on W2k-old looks different, but it does boot, too:
|
| [boot loader]
| timeout=20
| default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
| [operating systems]
| multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
| Professional" /fastdetect
|
| Any helpfull and detailed suggestions are very much appreciated by
| --
| Michael Weinert, D-29633 Munster


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