I got to messing it with some more. First off, I'm installing it from DOS. I went to the I386 dir and typed WINNT. It said it was copying the files to the hd, then there's a long pause. However, it DOES continue after about 75 seconds. Then it copies a bunch of stuff over. It looks almost like the WINNT install where it has the blue screen with the yellow progress bar at the bottom.
It makes it all the way to 100% and then it goes to reboot. When it comes back up, it gets a 0x0000007B error. I've looked this up on MS' web-site and it's a drive error. From what I can tell it's trying to access the CDROM that is was installing from. However, here's what I think is wrong.
First I formatted the C drive with the DOS from Windows 98. Then I booted from a Win98 Boot Disk. I told it to load the CDROM support so it loads the MSCDEX.EXE and it can find the CDROM. So it starts installing. When it gets time to reboot, it doesn't go through MSCDEX, it's going through whatever XP is trying to startup. At that point it doesn't have a driver for the F: (CDROM Drive letter) drive and therefore it can't access the CDROM so it throws the 7B Stop Message.
Now my question is, "How can I tell XP that the CD ROM is there"? Do I have to do this by specifying a Mass Storage Device? I put the Oak???.sys file for the CD support on a floppy, but it's looking for some kind of .oem file. I don't have the .oem file for this CD ROM driver, since it's the generic one from the Win98 boot disk.
I am using the UDMA66 port on the HPT370. It seems to access the HD ok, it's just having problems reading the CD ROM drive since there's no driver for it when XP comes back up.
How can I remedy this?
Thanks,
-Snaggs
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