Re: Update and thanks - was : Best place on usenet to ask about PCs

On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:28 +0100, in sci.electronics.design Pooh
Bear <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I manged to install XP succesfully finally.

The issue with W98 not seeing the NTFS drive was simply due to my overenthusiasm
in selecting NTFS. With both drives as FAT32 it's fine.

Installing the driver for the RAID controller was slightly more tricky. I found a
discussion in a forum where it was claimed the it was a problem installing
Highpoint 370 drivers in XP and even suggesting that its bios and driver should
have the same release number. Since the latest BIOS was ver ~ 1.12 or something and
the Windows driver was 2.351 I decided to disregard this advice.

Having re-installed XP with FAT32 I tried once agin installing the device driver
but got the same problem I had before.

What I'd missed but got next time round was the brief hint to press F6 to install
any 'third party drivers for SCSI Raid etc'. Actually pressing F6 when the msg
appears doesn't actually do anything *then* but prompts for the driver disk a few
minutes *later* ! This is unlike F2 for recovery which responds immediately if
pressed. So, if you miss the option to press F6 ( it's only onscreen for maybe 10
secs or less ) you're knackered and it's confusing that no response to the key
press happens straight away.

So - up and running now. I'm switching the boot drive in the bios which keeps my
W98SE installation totally untouched.

I was *very* intrigued to discover I could run installed W98 apps on the d: drive
from my XP installation too. Didn't expect that.

Thanks to everyone who helped point me in the right directions.

Graham
Now when you get the style you like set up, with all your normal
goodies, do a HDD clone with Norton Ghost or equiv.

BTW Procomm, (a dos terminal thing) from the 80's still runs on my XP
http://shelleytherepublican.com/category/education/technical/linux/


martin
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