win 2000 pro/hard drive probs

[doninmd]

I tried to downgrade from win xp pro to 2000 pro formated the drive and now my pc does not recognize my hard drive when I try and install 2000. I see it during start up but when i go to setup it is not recognized, it says none where the hard drive should be. I have a 1.2 amd athlon with 512 sdram i do have win 98 on the hard drive and this boots ok but I want 2000. Can anyone help???? Thanks

[andyms18a]

you nead to boot with a win 98 floppy and deleat non dos partitions reboot with you win 2k cp and it will make a new ntfs partition and format the drive then it will install

[doninmd]

I tried booting with the startup disk, but I have no partitions. Anything else that I might try?

[ZANEY123]

are you looking to dual boot or just run win2k only.

if you want to run 2k only, back-up your data then insert your win98 bootdisk delete partions.if there are no partions then insert the 2k disk, change the boot sequence in the bios to boot to cd first then restart it should boot to the 2k cd so you can format and partion and install the os.

HTH
Zaney123

[Markoman01027]

Does your BIOS detect the hard drive?

Go into the BIOS and change the Boot Order to having your CD-ROM first..put in the WIN2K CD and reboot the PC..

you can try these two methods..either of them will work fine for you..

A menu will come up with 3 options..press 1 to enter WIN2K setup..you will enter setup, and it will ask you if you want to format the hard drive..hit Y and then once it's done formatting..it will ask you to repartition..hit y and it will repartition for you.

Get a workable WIN98 boot disk(Can be CD or Floopy) boot up into DOS and RUN FDISK..remove any partitions you don't want.

you should be able to boot up into 2k fine..let setup partition and format the drive for you.

let us know if you need anymore help!

[doninmd]

Thanks for all of your help. I tried everything but no luck. My hard drive is not detected by the bios. At least when I start up and go into setup it says none or disabled in set up. I only have one hard drive and somehow I got 98 installed on it. When i boot up with the 98 floppy it says I have a drive E unit 0 and drive F unit 1. Does this help? Also under device manager it says my mass storage device is not working.