Re: Adaptec 19160 & Windows 2000 install "Inaccessible Boot Device"

From: Bob I (birelan_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/22/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:15:48 -0600

Just a thought here but IF #3 works, why not unplug the regular HD while
you do the install on the drive you want the fresh install on?

ITMA wrote:

> 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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