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Win 2000, Western Digital conflict?

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by kwolfe6622

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Has anyone had problems installing Windows 2000 Professional or Advanced Server on a western Digital 30GB drive? The problems are hard to pinpoint because of changing characteristics at each try. Western Digital says there is no problem. A messageboard on their site has messages from many people indicating the opposite.

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by dustbunnyden_webmaster

I have a western digital 20 gig and didn't have a problem installing Win2K advanced server. I don't know of anyone else who has had a problem installing either.

by dustbunnyden_webmaster

The one problem that has occured with harddrives is if they are ATA, then Win2k thinks they are SCSI drives. If you have the drivers for the disk, you can put them on a floppy and when it asks if you want to specify a SCSI device do so.

by estebandelatorre

I has an ide ata 100 20GB with win2k prof as SECONDARY ide, and found that with the slave jumper shorted, it doesn't work, I had to move the jumper to Cable Select position (CS)
Hope it helps!!!

Be sure to be using the correct ide ata cable, theone with the wires more close one each other.

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