Adaptec 19160 & Windows 2000 install "Inaccessible Boot Device"

From: ITMA (flatrate_at_lineone.net)
Date: 03/21/04 

Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 23:02:39 -0000

Can anyone shed any light on why I always get an "Inaccessible Boot Device"
error when trying to install Windows 2000 on a motherboard with an Adaptec
19160 card a few seconds after pushing F6 to install the drivers?

I've spent two weeks scouring the net and only come up with:

1. Adaptec's own website comes up with something similar for NT but it says
push F6 to load the correct drivers - so that's no use to me.

2. A hard to find MS Knowledge Base article that said it might be cured if I
slip-streamed a SP3 installation CD - didn't work.

3. Installing on another machine that already runs Windows and doing a new
install on a 'slave' disk and then transferring that disk to the other PC to
make it the boot CD. Works, but from prior experience I know that certain
software doesn't like the fact the root drive is no long 'C:' (because C is
already allocated in the good PC at the time of software installation)

4. I've tried to XP drivers for the Adaptec card instead of the Win 2000
drivers (XP installs OK without this glitch - but Win XP runs noticeably
slower due to all the inbuilt gimmicks so I want Win 2000)

5. Another search of the MS Knowledge Base says that, if doing an unattended
install one must put a particular line of code in the unattend.txt file to
avoid this error. I thought to myself, Ah ha! I'm not actually doing an
unattended install but if this particular method might avoid my problem then
its worth a go. I got stuck because I didn't really know what I was doing
but presumably unattended installs are for upgrading a networked PC from say
Win3.1 or 95 to 2000? Or is it possible to put the unattend.txt or whatever
file you call it actually on the installation CD and have the whole thing
automated even though you're sat watching the PC do it?

6. All sorts of other things that have not got me anywhere either!

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