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Installing Win2k
Name: drew Date: December 9, 2003 at 11:35:12 Pacific OS: Windows98 CPU/Ram: 256
Comment:
I am trying to install Windows 2000 on a Dell computer from Windows98. When I get to the prompt to start the installation - I am getting a message that the hard drive does not exist. Yet when I reboot the computer I can boot up into Window98 without any problems.
Name: rain3d Date: December 9, 2003 at 12:36:31 Pacific
Reply:
It sounds like a third party RAID or SCSI driver issue. If you are booting to the Windows 2000 CD, press F6 when prompted to and have the RAID or SCSI driver disk ready.
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Response Number 2
Name: rookie Date: December 9, 2003 at 13:06:01 Pacific
Reply:
for a clean installation I would go ahead and format the drive and start their. But if you do have a scsi drive than you will need that driver in order for Win2K to recongnize the drive.
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Response Number 3
Name: wanderer Date: December 9, 2003 at 20:09:26 Pacific
Reply:
you might, before you trash your system, check to see if Dell supports W2K on your computer. Also make sure you don't have a partition encryption virus.
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