Installing W2K on SCSI HD??????

haven · 06-11-2001, 02:28 PM

I have not been able to get W2K to install correctly with a 29160 and Western Digital 18 GB drive. The installation process formats and copies all of the necessary files to the HD, but the latest error message is ntoskrnl is missing from the system 32 directory. Well...after booting into DOS I can not see it, and I tried to copy it off of the W2K CD, and still nothing. Before then, it was a disk read error. So, I am lost here and any help would be great.

caddelma · 06-11-2001, 02:33 PM

When you find out let me know. I had similar problems using a raid 0 setup and finally said screw it and got rid of the raid setup.

haven · 06-11-2001, 02:34 PM

Well, that is what I eventually wanted to go to, but for now it's a single drive. I will apprise when I can.

caddelma · 06-11-2001, 02:37 PM

Mine was on a promise fastrack66 raid card (ide) with two western digital 20gb 7200rpm drives.

Archeon · 06-11-2001, 03:09 PM

I too had problems installing win2k with an adaptec 29160 and a quantum 10k drive.

The solution was in the beginning of the install to push F6 and thus installing a "non microsoft dedicated SCSI driver". (or something like that)
I just pressed F6 and loaded up the Adaptec win2k driver. All worked flawless from then on.

haven · 06-11-2001, 03:17 PM

I did that too, and then went through the install process and received those errors messages after the first reboot.

caddelma · 06-12-2001, 05:18 AM

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Originally posted by haven
I did that too, and then went through the install process and received those errors messages after the first reboot.

ditto

caddelma · 06-12-2001, 05:39 AM

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Originally posted by chosenfool

3)Make sure to repeat the process at least twice, though once should be enough. I found that just installing it once installed the drivers on just one header. I had to reinstall the drivers for the second header.

Am I understanding you corrctly that you find the driver and install, then when asked for any other drivers (for other hardware) you simply install the same driver again?
What do you mean by header?

haven · 06-12-2001, 08:43 AM

Yea, I am confused about the header deal too, but I will try that. Is it a requirement to start from the CD or will the floppies work too? I can remember with NT there were issues on starting with the CD and other from the floppies.

Thanks for the inf.

haven · 06-14-2001, 08:37 AM

Great, thanks for the explanation.

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06-11-2001, 02:28 PM	#1
haven Lieutenant Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Right behind you... Posts: 323	I have not been able to get W2K to install correctly with a 29160 and Western Digital 18 GB drive. The installation process formats and copies all of the necessary files to the HD, but the latest error message is ntoskrnl is missing from the system 32 directory. Well...after booting into DOS I can not see it, and I tried to copy it off of the W2K CD, and still nothing. Before then, it was a disk read error. So, I am lost here and any help would be great.

06-11-2001, 02:34 PM	#3
haven Lieutenant Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Right behind you... Posts: 323	Well, that is what I eventually wanted to go to, but for now it's a single drive. I will apprise when I can.

06-11-2001, 02:37 PM	#4
caddelma Lieutenant Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 202	Mine was on a promise fastrack66 raid card (ide) with two western digital 20gb 7200rpm drives.

06-11-2001, 03:09 PM	#5
Archeon Ensign Join Date: May 2001 Location: Belgium! Posts: 31	I too had problems installing win2k with an adaptec 29160 and a quantum 10k drive. The solution was in the beginning of the install to push F6 and thus installing a "non microsoft dedicated SCSI driver". (or something like that) I just pressed F6 and loaded up the Adaptec win2k driver. All worked flawless from then on.

06-11-2001, 03:17 PM	#6
haven Lieutenant Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Right behind you... Posts: 323	I did that too, and then went through the install process and received those errors messages after the first reboot.

06-12-2001, 08:43 AM	#9
haven Lieutenant Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Right behind you... Posts: 323	Yea, I am confused about the header deal too, but I will try that. Is it a requirement to start from the CD or will the floppies work too? I can remember with NT there were issues on starting with the CD and other from the floppies. Thanks for the inf.

06-14-2001, 08:37 AM	#10
haven Lieutenant Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Right behind you... Posts: 323	Great, thanks for the explanation.

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