scsi

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there was not a scsi newsgroup so i posted here. I am at work and one of the
computers hard drives failed and we do not have a spare except a scsi that
plugs into the card in the pci slot. But anyway when i bootup to a floppy of
a windows 98 cd it stops at this part "Pci bus scan complete". I looked on
the internet and it looks like the next step would have something to do with
the cdrom so i booted to a floppy without cdrom support that worked it was
able to format the hard drive. But i can not install windows 98 because if i
try to boot to a floppy with cdrom support or booting to the 98 cd it still
stops at the same message durring bootup "Pci bus scan complete" . If i try
to boot to a windows 2000 cd that works but when it gets to the part that
you normaly hit f8 it says "setup did not find a boot disk drives installed
in your computer"

Any ideas so i can install windows 98?

 

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And what is your problem with Win XP??

"sthompson" wrote:

> there was not a scsi newsgroup so i posted here. I am at work and one of the
> computers hard drives failed and we do not have a spare except a scsi that
> plugs into the card in the pci slot. But anyway when i bootup to a floppy of
> a windows 98 cd it stops at this part "Pci bus scan complete". I looked on
> the internet and it looks like the next step would have something to do with
> the cdrom so i booted to a floppy without cdrom support that worked it was
> able to format the hard drive. But i can not install windows 98 because if i
> try to boot to a floppy with cdrom support or booting to the 98 cd it still
> stops at the same message durring bootup "Pci bus scan complete" . If i try
> to boot to a windows 2000 cd that works but when it gets to the part that
> you normaly hit f8 it says "setup did not find a boot disk drives installed
> in your computer"
>
> Any ideas so i can install windows 98?
>

 

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SCSI adapter (PCI slotted card) required to have a driver installed during
XP set up. Download the driver(s) from the manufacturer's web site and when
the XP install process is starting, look for <F6> an install 3rd party
drives. Press it and add the SCSI drivers.


"sthompson" <sthompson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:96DA2BFE-E4C7-4FA5-B629-C5F496E2EE78@microsoft.com...
> there was not a scsi newsgroup so i posted here. I am at work and one of
> the
> computers hard drives failed and we do not have a spare except a scsi that
> plugs into the card in the pci slot. But anyway when i bootup to a floppy
> of
> a windows 98 cd it stops at this part "Pci bus scan complete". I looked on
> the internet and it looks like the next step would have something to do
> with
> the cdrom so i booted to a floppy without cdrom support that worked it was
> able to format the hard drive. But i can not install windows 98 because if
> i
> try to boot to a floppy with cdrom support or booting to the 98 cd it
> still
> stops at the same message durring bootup "Pci bus scan complete" . If i
> try
> to boot to a windows 2000 cd that works but when it gets to the part that
> you normaly hit f8 it says "setup did not find a boot disk drives
> installed
> in your computer"
>
> Any ideas so i can install windows 98?
>

 

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sthompson wrote:
> there was not a scsi newsgroup so i posted here. I am at work and one of the
> computers hard drives failed and we do not have a spare except a scsi that
> plugs into the card in the pci slot. But anyway when i bootup to a floppy of
> a windows 98 cd it stops at this part "Pci bus scan complete". I looked on
> the internet and it looks like the next step would have something to do with
> the cdrom so i booted to a floppy without cdrom support that worked it was
> able to format the hard drive. But i can not install windows 98 because if i
> try to boot to a floppy with cdrom support or booting to the 98 cd it still
> stops at the same message durring bootup "Pci bus scan complete" . If i try
> to boot to a windows 2000 cd that works but when it gets to the part that
> you normaly hit f8 it says "setup did not find a boot disk drives installed
> in your computer"
>
> Any ideas so i can install windows 98?
>

This is more of a Windows 98 setup question than
Windows 2000 as they have different approaches, IIRC,
for adding the proper SCSI drivers during setup. Visit
microsoft.public.win98.setup and re-post the question.
Using the Win98 setup floppy diskette is required.

 

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You need to partition the drive and make it Active(bootable),
before it can be recognized as a bootable drive.


"sthompson" <sthompson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:96DA2BFE-E4C7-4FA5-B629-C5F496E2EE78@microsoft.com...
> there was not a scsi newsgroup so i posted here. I am at work and one of
> the
> computers hard drives failed and we do not have a spare except a scsi that
> plugs into the card in the pci slot. But anyway when i bootup to a floppy
> of
> a windows 98 cd it stops at this part "Pci bus scan complete". I looked on
> the internet and it looks like the next step would have something to do
> with
> the cdrom so i booted to a floppy without cdrom support that worked it was
> able to format the hard drive. But i can not install windows 98 because if
> i
> try to boot to a floppy with cdrom support or booting to the 98 cd it
> still
> stops at the same message durring bootup "Pci bus scan complete" . If i
> try
> to boot to a windows 2000 cd that works but when it gets to the part that
> you normaly hit f8 it says "setup did not find a boot disk drives
> installed
> in your computer"
>
> Any ideas so i can install windows 98?
>