Unknown disk error during setup

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Auschten

I have two hard drives. I would like to put XP Home on
[D:] and Win2kPro on [C:]. I have some XP stuff on [D:],
so I removed that drive so it would not conflict with the
2k install. When I boot to the 2k cd, I get an "Unknown
disk. There is no disk in this drive." error where I
should be able to partition/format the drive. I tried
XP's setup, and it had no problem seeing the drive.

So, I used fdisk to format the [C:] drive. Again, 2k
could not find the drive, while XP had no problem.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
 
With both drives property jumpered and connected, either boot the Windows
2000 CD-Rom or setup disks. The set of four install disks can be created
from your Win2k CD-rom; change to the \bootdisk directory on the cd-rom and
execute makeboot.exe (from dos) or makebt32.exe (from 32 bit) and follow the
prompts.

When you get to the point, delete the existing NTFS and or other partitions
found. After you delete the partition(s) abort the install, then again
restart the pc booting the CD-Rom or setup disks to avoid unexpected drive
letter assignments with your new install and install to drive0

Depending on the drive controller (possibly SCSI, or ultra DMA, or ATA100,
or raid), you'll need to boot the Windows 2000 setup disks or CD-Rom and
*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 drive's controller in drive "A"

If you wait and then S to specify additional drivers, then it may be too
late as Windows 2000 Setup at this point may have already assigned the
resources your drive's controller is wanting to use.

After the Windows 2000 install, boot the XP CD-Rom and choose to install to
the unallocated space on drive1
 
I guess I don't understand how I'm supposed to delete a
partition using the Win2k setup when the Win2k setup does
not even recognize the drive--any drive, whether I have
one or two installed. Should I delete the partition using
the XP setup cd instead?

Thanks
-----Original Message-----
With both drives property jumpered and connected, either boot the Windows
2000 CD-Rom or setup disks. The set of four install disks can be created
from your Win2k CD-rom; change to the \bootdisk directory on the cd-rom and
execute makeboot.exe (from dos) or makebt32.exe (from 32 bit) and follow the
prompts.

When you get to the point, delete the existing NTFS and or other partitions
found. After you delete the partition(s) abort the install, then again
restart the pc booting the CD-Rom or setup disks to avoid unexpected drive
letter assignments with your new install and install to drive0

Depending on the drive controller (possibly SCSI, or ultra DMA, or ATA100,
or raid), you'll need to boot the Windows 2000 setup disks or CD-Rom and
*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 drive's controller in drive "A"

If you wait and then S to specify additional drivers, then it may be too
late as Windows 2000 Setup at this point may have already assigned the
resources your drive's controller is wanting to use.

After the Windows 2000 install, boot the XP CD-Rom and choose to install to
the unallocated space on drive1

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]

Auschten said:
I have two hard drives. I would like to put XP Home on
[D:] and Win2kPro on [C:]. I have some XP stuff on [D:],
so I removed that drive so it would not conflict with the
2k install. When I boot to the 2k cd, I get an "Unknown
disk. There is no disk in this drive." error where I
should be able to partition/format the drive. I tried
XP's setup, and it had no problem seeing the drive.

So, I used fdisk to format the [C:] drive. Again, 2k
could not find the drive, while XP had no problem.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
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One is a 60Gb Quantum Fireball--this is the one I want to
put Win2k on. The other is an 80Gb Maxtor. I believe the
controller is UltraDMA.

-----Original Message-----
What type of drives? and what is the drive controller?

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]

Auschten said:
I guess I don't understand how I'm supposed to delete a
partition using the Win2k setup when the Win2k setup does
not even recognize the drive--any drive, whether I have
one or two installed. Should I delete the partition using
the XP setup cd instead?

Thanks
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Then in order to install Windows 2000 you'll need to do the F6 trick
described earlier in this thread.
 
Ok. I'll give it a shot later this evening.

Thanks so much!
-----Original Message-----
Then in order to install Windows 2000 you'll need to do the F6 trick
described earlier in this thread.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]

Auschten said:
One is a 60Gb Quantum Fireball--this is the one I want to
put Win2k on. The other is an 80Gb Maxtor. I believe the
controller is UltraDMA.
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Ok, I've been trying to manually load the drivers, but it
just isn't happening. I've copied the drivers (including
the .sys, .cab, and .inf files, along with txtsetup.oem)
to a floppy. I booted from the Win2k CD, pressed F6,
pressed S when it told me to. It was able to find the
drivers on the floppy and gave me a list to choose from,
so I chose the Win2k driver. But then I keep getting the
following error message:

File \win2000\ultra.sys caused an unexpected error (18)
at line 1211 in d:\nt\private\ntos\boot\setup\oemdisk.c

Did I do something wrong?

Thanks
-----Original Message-----
Ok. I'll give it a shot later this evening.

Thanks so much!
-----Original Message-----
Then in order to install Windows 2000 you'll need to do the F6 trick
described earlier in this thread.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]

Auschten said:
One is a 60Gb Quantum Fireball--this is the one I
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You might try downloading the drivers again. Also a long shot, but make sure
the option (if it exists) to protect the MBR and boot sector in controller
bios is off. If you're using an LS120 floppy drive then this also can cause
a problem. Use a standard floppy drive to get through text mode setup.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]

Asuchten said:
Ok, I've been trying to manually load the drivers, but it
just isn't happening. I've copied the drivers (including
the .sys, .cab, and .inf files, along with txtsetup.oem)
to a floppy. I booted from the Win2k CD, pressed F6,
pressed S when it told me to. It was able to find the
drivers on the floppy and gave me a list to choose from,
so I chose the Win2k driver. But then I keep getting the
following error message:

File \win2000\ultra.sys caused an unexpected error (18)
at line 1211 in d:\nt\private\ntos\boot\setup\oemdisk.c

Did I do something wrong?

Thanks
-----Original Message-----
Ok. I'll give it a shot later this evening.

Thanks so much!
-----Original Message-----
Then in order to install Windows 2000 you'll need to do the F6 trick
described earlier in this thread.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]

:
One is a 60Gb Quantum Fireball--this is the one I
Click to expand...
want
to
put Win2k on. The other is an 80Gb Maxtor. I believe the
controller is UltraDMA.


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What is the layout of your floppy?

In particular, did you put ultra.sys at the root of the floppy, or in
a \win2000 folder?

Your error message suggests that the txtsetup.oem file wants ultra.sys
to be A:\win2000\ultra.sys. Similarly for all of the other files
except txtsetup.oem itself.

- Pat
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/
 
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