re: Unable to Install Windows 2000 on SATA drive Thursday, May 19, 2005 at 6:42 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by adrian (804 messages posted) I feel your pain. I ran into the exact same problem last year. I DID have the diskette with the drivers, and win2k installation wouldn't accept them. Then, according to instructions, I copied the drivers to the root directory of another diskette. The installation accepted the drivers this time, and then promptly crashed. My solution: I installed win2k on an old IDE drive, then I told win2k I have a new device (the SATA controller), and it happily accepted the original diskette, and recognized my SATA drive. Then I used ghost from a DOS bootable diskette (DOS has no problem with SATA controllers) and transferred the win2k (now containing the SATA drivers) from the IDE drive to a partition on the SATA drive. If the diskette with SATA drivers works for you, great. If not, consider the way I did it. Written in response to: Unable to Install Windows 2000 on SATA drive (rgbbw: Thursday, May 19, 2005 at 12:48 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Unable to Install Windows 2000 on SATA drive (rgbbw: Thu, May 19, 2005, 12:48 am) re: Unable to Install Windows 2000 on SATA drive (Curt R: Thu, May 19, 2005, 4:33 am) re: Unable to Install Windows 2000 on SATA drive (adrian: Thu, May 19, 2005, 6:42 am) re: Unable to Install Windows 2000 on SATA drive (JT: Thu, May 19, 2005, 12:37 pm) re: Unable to Install Windows 2000 on SATA drive (rgbbw: Thu, May 19, 2005, 3:03 pm) re: Unable to Install Windows 2000 on SATA drive (DEX: Thu, May 19, 2005, 4:36 pm) re: Unable to Install Windows 2000 on SATA drive (rgbbw: Thu, May 19, 2005, 9:14 pm) re: Unable to Install Windows 2000 on SATA drive (rgbbw: Mon, May 23, 2005, 12:14 am) re: Unable to Install Windows 2000 on SATA drive (adrian: Mon, May 23, 2005, 6:24 am) Install Windows 2000 with XOSL multibootloader on SATA drive (rgbbw: Mon, May 23, 2005, 1:25 pm) re: Install Windows 2000 with XOSL multibootloader on SATA drive (adrian: Mon, May 23, 2005, 1:50 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum