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Throw on another drive, and then use PowerQuest's Drive Image (or Norton's
Ghost) to image all the partitions you don't need for Win2K. Now reformat
the disk with *only* FAT32 or NTFS partitions and install Win2K to one of
them. After that works (if it does), again use PowerQuest's Drive Image to
recreate the other partitions (assuming you left some room for them--and if
not, first use Partition Magic to create that room).
This is just a guess on my part--and it should be fairly simple to try out.
Let us know if it works.
John
At 04:41 PM 2/12/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Grab your Phillips, it's...
>The Latest from The Screwdriver List!
>
>
>Hi, folks,
>I've run across a problem that I find intriguing.
>
>In our office we are attempting to install Win2k professional on an HP
>Vectra/something. The machine is a 333/P2 (as I recall), 128 meg RAM,
>HP's audio and video OEM onboard-subsystems-of-the-week, and an
>intended 9 gig Seagate SCSI drive.
>The SCSI card is an Adaptec 1540/1542 (ISA).
>
>NT 4.0 Workstation, Server, and Win98/se will all install perfectly to
>this drive and boot correctly from the drive.
>
>Win2k will go through a partial install but following the change from
>the text-based install to the graphical-install it presents the error
>message "Inaccessible_boot_device", and does the equivalent of a BSOD.
>
>The message, and the corresponding hex addresses were located in
>Microsoft's Knowledge Base with the suggestions that virus checking be
>turned off, or that the drive may be compressed.
>The drive was brand-new, never before opened.
>
>BIOS-level boot sector virus checking was disabled. The drive was
>FDISK /mbr'ed, formatted under Partition Magic 5.0 as FAT32, NTFS,
>EXT2 (Linux), and back to FAT32 for Win2k.
>
>We've tried copying the \I386 directory from the installation CD to
>the drive and running the installation from there.
>
>Hours have been spent double- and triple-checking the SCSI card, its
>termination, the drive's termination and address and the boot.ini
>file.
>
>We know it will install to an IDE drive but at present we only have
>spare SCSI units.
>
>Might anyone have any ideas ?
>Ron n1zhi
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