Win2k, ATA100, IBM Deskstar

It is absolutely fine with W2k, it cannon handle hardware changes, especially hard drive stuff. I have tried to switch SCSI card is different PCI between reboots during installation, got blue screen right away, changed it back, runs like a champ again.
So, you want to set W2k on the hardware you want it to run and don’t touch it no more. That’s my $0.02 in yer pocket... hehe


K7 + KT7A + MX300 + VooDoo3000 = :smile:
P3 + CUSL2-C + MX300 + Asus7700 = :smile:

I would check to make sure that it is running in DMA mode rather than PIO mode. That can have a significant impact.

John Garrett
System Admin - www.elementk.com
Editor - Exploring Windows NT Professional

If you're going to be switching the interface for your boot disk, you need to load the new driver *before* wou switch interfaces (this is the same with all other versions of NT and **IX as well), or at the very least use the Win2k Setup recovery console to load the new driver.

Win9x uses the older (and, I guess, lower performance) interrupt 13 BIOS disk interface, so switching controllers is not really a problem as long as the card supports INT13 booting (almost all do). I believe Win2k/NT use this INT13 BIOS interface only to find the boot.ini and loader files, and then use the loaded driver to talk directly to the controller card after that.