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emily917

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January 19th, 2007 10:00

W2000 on 9200

I am waiting for delivery of a Dell outlett 9200,which I believe to have 2 HD connected as raid 0 ( 2 X 160s ).

I like to install my old W2000 from the original CD.

Can I just turn off the raid controller from the bios then boot and install w2000 on first drive as c and use the second drive as d for storage and backups?

mombodog

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January 20th, 2007 03:00

Your W2K cd will not have the proper drivers for the sata controller and setup will not find the hard drives.
 
May I ask why you want to do this.
 
Doing so will destroy the diagnostics, and recovery partitions, these are advanced features and are extremely difficult to restore once the drives a re formatted.
 
You will also lose some preinstalled software, and you cannot get the CD's for some of these to re install
 
This is just one feature lost by formatting
 
We have had some posts here, where people have done this (installed another OS or reinstalled XP) and regretted it.
 
One thing you can do is use Imaging software to image the entire drive(s), all partitions. So the PC can be restored if your plan fails. Do this before formatting.
 
 
 

emily917

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January 20th, 2007 05:00

The reason is some old software I use not being compatible with XP and feeling at ease with an OS I am perfectly at ease with.
I am using a PC where my OS on C drive and an "drive image" is on D.And the drive image can be restored by booting with a floppy.


If there was a way to migrate the pre-installed version to a single drive as raid 1,I would turn off raid,then install my old W2000 to the second drive and it appears that can not be done.

It is my understanding that on raid 0 everything,the O/s and a hidden image is scattered over the 2 drives,in total 320MB.Does anyone know how the imaging software would handle this and the resulting image can be burned onto a cd/dvd?

After reading some other similar posts it appears that I can copy the file iaAHCI.INF into a floppy and use it during the new install (F6).to enable sata support? Does this work?

Another option I would be happy with is to install W2K to dual boot provided that I can migrate the XP to a single drive and use the second drive for data and images.

Thank you for your reply

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