SCSI!?!?!

Willbo · 10 Oct 2007 at 23:49

I have been installing various OS's on my laptop recently to try various things for college work, and it has Vista Home on at the moment, all working fine.

I tried to put on Windows 2000 last night, and Windows Server 2003 tonight. When trying to install these, the dos setup program stops when I select what hard drive to install too, and mentions about a SCSI hard drive?!
This has thrown me as I only have a standard laptop drive installed. I've run diagnostics and the drive is fine.

waxapple · 10 Oct 2007 at 23:51

SATA drive?

Willbo · 11 Oct 2007 at 00:01

Its a Fujitsu MHW2080BH laptop hard drive

waxapple · 11 Oct 2007 at 00:06

Fujitsu MHW2080BH 80GB Serial ATA 5400RPM Mobile Hard Drive.

It's just the way it is, SATA drives are listed as SCSI.

Nothing to worry about.

Willbo · 11 Oct 2007 at 00:08

Ok thats fine. But why does the setup program for Win2k3 stop the installation.
It mentions SCSI drive, and also that the drive is faulty. Its only a couple of weeks old and I've just run all the Fujitsu diag tools and its fine :s

waxapple · 11 Oct 2007 at 00:19

During the install W2k3 will ask you to press [F6] if you need to provide additional storage drivers.

You'll need to copy the SATA drivers onto a floppy disk.

If your laptop isn't equipt with a floppy-drive, I'm not sure how much luck you'd have with a USB pen with the drivers on it. Always handy to have a usb floppy drive about.

Why run it on a laptop anyway?
Might be better to try running 2k3 in a virtual machine if you're just playing about?

Willbo · 11 Oct 2007 at 00:25

I've heard a lot about VM. But as I would be using it for networking, a lot of general using to try stuff out...I'd like to have the full installation there on my drive

Weird though because I actually installed 2k3 last week no problems, but I formatted it off the drive as I had a driver error for my wifi and soundcard which caused a lot of blue screen errors on boot

waxapple · 11 Oct 2007 at 00:31

Willbo said:
I've heard a lot about VM. But as I would be using it for networking, a lot of general using to try stuff out...I'd like to have the full installation there on my drive

Weird though because I actually installed 2k3 last week no problems, but I formatted it off the drive as I had a driver error for my wifi and soundcard which caused a lot of blue screen errors on boot

Strange.

With regards to networking with a VM, I'm not sure about Microsoft's Virtual PC, but VMWare is fairly straight forward in terms of auto-detecting and configuring shared networking with the host computer.