Install to SCSI

From: Andy (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/16/04

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    If you had installed the scsi card driver, it should show
    up during bootup before you boot to the win2k cd. If your
    scsi card is born after win2k, you need to F6 early and
    have the driver disk in A:

    Hope this info is useful

    >-----Original Message-----
    >I am trying to upgrade an NT4 workstation to 2000. The
    >main hard drive is SCSI, and one of its 'quirks' is that
    >it doesn't show up in the BIOS and boot sequence. When I
    >try to upgrade to 2K, I get a stop error telling me to
    >make sure that the hard drive is working properly. I
    have
    >loaded the SCSI controller's drivers at the beginning of
    >the Win2K setup, and the same happens. I don't believe
    >that the HDD came with any drivers of it's own, and there
    >were no problems when we installed NT. Any suggestions?
    >.
    >

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