Q: Ok guys, I have a WD 180 GB hard drive attached to my system, and when plugged in, Windows will not load, it just hangs when I try to reinstall Windows when it comes to “loading Windows 2000 Setup “hangs. No problems when not connected. My system is as follows
OS Windows 2000 Advanced Server (though I tried Professional and regular server too vain)
Motherboard: Epox 8kha 977,503 CPU: TBIRD 1.4ghz
Ram: Crucial 512 (2X256)
Video Card: Geforce 4 Ti-4200 card 128mb
Sound: Hercules Game Theater XP
Hard disk controllers: Promise TX2 ATA-100 card with the 180gb drives and an Adaptec 29160
Hard: 80GB IDE primary master on the onboard controller 180gb as secondary master (Ive tried it on the controller card and, same problem) quantum atlas 10kIII 18.1gb U160 (boot disk)
Optical drives: 52x CD-ROM on the primary master controller, 32x CD-RW master on the secondary controller
PSU: Antec True Blue 480watt, 50 CFM fans in the hard drive bay, and one in the front of the cabinet, with two Antec 80mm in the rear exhaust
I all combinations of jumpers tried, as I assumed only that the problem was, I have to master with no slave (single) master with slave (put a slave of the exist) and the alternate jumper settings tried the WD troubleshooting guide on the manual. The disk is formatted with an NTFS partition and set with the WD software, no problems until I connect the drive with unhooked, the system works fine. All boys? This has me stumped, I would have 180 there, but do not know what to do.
Re:I have also seen posts where people using master/slave jumper configuration have had problems. When they used cable select, the problem went away. Sorry, I cant provide any links or more details to that issue.
Re:possibilities:
is there a bios/ Firmware update for the ATA CONTROLLER CARD?
if yes, install that & try again
if no, take it out and use the ATA controller on the motherboard and see if that does anything
if yes didn't work, take it out and use the motherboards ATA controller- see if that does anything.
BTW: with the system in whatever state allows you to operate the machine, I would slipstream SP3 into your 2k install. This will remove the need for the previously listed registry modification… How to slipstream 2k, and still be able to boot from the CD. (http://www.bink.nu/Bootcd/default.htm)
Re:Ok, I enabled 48 LBA support as per the Knowledgebase article's instructions, however one quirk I noticed while adding the value data for the registry key: in the instructions it says to add value data 0×1, however you cannot enter 0×1 via keyboard commands, I copied and pasted it in, but the key only reads 0 for value data. Needless to say it did not work. The exact error I get on boot is "Windows 2000 could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt <windows 2000 root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe. Please re-install a copy of the above file. When I unplug the 180gb drive I don't get the error. Another problem I am having is, the machine will not boot if there is not a bootable cd in the cd-rom drive attached to the ATA controller card, it says insert bootable disk and will not go any further, with the disk in the drive there are no problems. I am going to try formatting the drive into two ~90gb drives to bypass the 48bit addressing issue, and see if that helps, as for the other problem, anyone think it might be the computer using the ATA card before the SCSI card for boot? I have to look up the PCI slot numberings for this board, maybe (long shot) if the SCSI card is in an earlier numbered slot (like 1) than the ATA (like 4) it will attempt to boot from SCSI first, I dunno, I don't really need the extra storage, but I hate not being able to fix a problem!
/edit the 86gb partitions did not work, oh well thanks for the help all.
Re:Thanks for the link, however on my last clean install (about an hour ago) after I install and get things set up, then do the first reboot after setting admin password and local settings etc, it says invalid system disk insert system disk and press any key, when I have the cd in the drive however the message I get is could not load 2000 because hard drive path could not be found.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Would this be of some help?
Microsoft 48 bit support (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;305098)
thanks guy !!
Re:Would this be of some help?
Microsoft 48 bit support (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;305098)
Re:No go on the bios, I have the latest bios for the motherboard, and the card, I'm thinking my SCSI and the ata controller card aren't playing nice, esp since I have SCSI set to boot device.
Re:Yeah, I actually switched to rounded IDE cables from svc afteer I had the problem at first, also on your system, do you use a good surge protector? Maybe it was something else killing them?
Re:Try swapping ide ribbons, one crapped out on me once. Also I'd like to mention I've owned 2 maxtor ata133's for about 2 weeks each before they burnt out during a power outtage (why are they so sensitive to abrupt power outtages??). After I got done rma'ing the first, the second one was toast before I even had the time to enjoy it.
Re:Thanks for the replies, to clarify, the 180gb is solely for extra storage, as my SCSI drive is my boot drive, the 180gb is formatted using NTFS, my motherboard recognizes it as a 180gb hard drive, the controller card that came with it recognized it as 167gb. I will try the latest bios. Thanks again.
Re:Formatting the Hard Drive did the trick, I'm installing XP pro with no problems now.
Hope this works for you.
Re:I think some motherboard have trouble dealing with hard drives over 120 GB. Make sure you have the latest bios from Epox for your mobo.
Maybe that will help the situation
Re:Hi,
It looks like we have the same problem, but mine is with a WD 120 G.
What I'm trying right now is pre-formatting the hard drive before the OS install. I've been able to get to the formatting point with Win 2000 boot discs ( www.bootdisk.com )
Also, I was able to load Linux 8 with no problem. If you have Linux, you might wany to test this to see if your drive will load any OS.
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