Re: 98 to 2K Incompatible Hard Disk Controller
From: Dan Seur (click_at_casta.net)
Date: 03/25/04
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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 22:36:35 -0500
As you probably know, upgrades are an attractive but very "iffy"
proposition. Lots of people spend more time recovering than they
would've spent reinstalling apps after a clean install.
You could expect to get an "incompatible controller driver" from an
analysis of a W9x system. ALL W9x drivers are incompatible with W2k.
Try the upgrade. It might work fine, assuming the W9x has no serious
corruption. If it works, you win. If it doesn't, call Dell. Or check the
Intel site for a W2k controller driver.
You might also run, from the W2k CD, on your current system:
[CD:]\i386\winnt32.exe /checkupgradeonly
which will give you a nice report on potential probs but won't start an
install. (I'm not sure from your post you did this.)
Sylvia wrote:
> I'm doing an upgrade from Win 98 to Win 2K. The Upgrade
> Report listed several programs with locations and names
> that were incompatible and I've removed them. It also
> tells me several hard ware devices - printers, scanners,
> etc that I need new drivers for and I have those. But....
> I get this item in the report "Incompatible hard Disk
> Controller" which then proceeds to tell me that setup does
> not have a driver for the hard disk controller on the
> system and if I continue without a Win 2K version - 95 or
> 98 will not do, setup might fail.
>
> The controller is an Intel 82371AB/EB PCI BUS master IDE
> Controller which is on the compatibility list. I've been
> to the Dell site and they do not show any updated drivers
> for this, not does the Intel site. Frankly I'm not sure
> if I'm even looking for the right driver but this is the
> only *controller* driver in my hardware list. Is this
> message an anomaly and everything will work fine (hah!) or
> where might I search for this driver??? Someone suggested
> I do a clean install and this problem won't happen but, as
> everyone else doing an upgrade, the process of
> reinstalling all the apps will be a pain in this instance.
>
> Thanks for any ideas anyone may have.
>
> Sylvia
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