Windows reinstallation hardware problem.

Fenster

A few weeks back, my PSU went faulty, causing power spikes in my PC and damaging one of my hard drives. I replaced the PSU and moved to my second hard drive without much issue, with it now being in the master slot.

Right now I'm trying to reinstall Windows 2000 on a replacment Samsung HD in the slave slot. I've tried this with it set to CS and Slave. When I try to create a partition on it to install Windows, I get the following message:

To install Windows 2000 on the partition you selected, Setup must write some startup files to the following disk:

76317 MB Disk 0 at ID 0 on bus 0 on atapi

However, this disk does not contain a Windows 2000-compatible partition.

To continue install Windows 2000, return to the partition selection screen and create a Windows 2000-compatible partition on the disk above. If there is no free space on the disk, delete an exsisting partition on the disk above.

To return to the partition selection screen, press ENTER.

Out of curiousity I popped in the damaged hard drive and got exactly the same message. I checked the new one using fsck and fdisk under Linux and found it to be formatted with a perfectly readable and writable FAT32 disk.

Would anyone have insight on what might be causing this?

kleefarr

Do you get an option for Win 2k to prepare a formatted partion for you? You shouldn't have any problems once Win 2k setup has done this.

Edit: Are you installing via bootable CD?

osmethod

What is the jumper setting on the master...?
Ensure its not at Master/Single Drive Only

Trying to understand your post....
Now, you have a HD with a fat32 partition with 2000 installed on it.
You are now trying to re-install 2000 on the slave (at the same time as 2000 is on the Master 1st drive). So you want to end up with 2 2000 installs?

osmethod

Fenster

Should've been clearer:

Master HD has Fedora Core 3 installed-it works perfectly.

The Slave is the new hard drive.

The slave is replacing an older drive that got fragged by a faulty PSU.

The new drive came pre-formatted as a blank FAT32 drive. It reads and works perfectly under Linux. However, when I attempt to install Windows on it, it tells me that the default partition (and after deleting it, the parittions I created in the installer) isn't compatible. I checked the older, faulty drive and got the same message.

osmethod

I believe your problem stems from the fact that (strictly) speaking 2k needs to be able to boot from the first hard disk. It does not (strictly) speaking boot off the 2nd disk.

A work around....

Take out the fedora disk and put the new hd in as master. Install 2k (you shouldn't have problems now..). when installed you can either...

1. Leave the 2k disk as is and get bootpart to add the fedora boot record to 2k's boot.ini. This implies changing the boot paths in the grub config file..

2. After install, put fedora back in as master, 2k in as slave. Put a record in the grub config file for 2k. You'll also need to set the "map" switch.

grub> map (hd0) (hd1)
grub> map (hd1) (hd0)

This enables 2k to think it is booting from disk 1 (only for the initial boot load..) and work away.

osmethod

Fenster

That worked perfectly, thank you. I guess I'm spoiled by Linux.