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15243	2001-07-09 00:46:00	During the first stage of setup, the WINDOWS 2000 Professional generated and report, indicating my bus master driver MAY not be compatible. I have a 430VX chipset on a Soyo P54C. Win98 (so i am told) has its own drivers. (indeed there is a device in the system properties -Intel82371SB PCI controller) The most recent BIOS has been loaded (18/11/1997). If I ignore this caution -further along the install claims i have no Mass Storage Devices. (I have a Fujitsu 10.2gig IDE) Is this because of the chipset inf or the wrong FAT? My detective work has revealed a tangle of problems all of which are possibly a waste of time. 1st - Is the chipset too old for Windows 2000 2nd - Is it because i have a FAT32 file system and need to reformat the drive? 3rd - Fujitsu provide a Disk Manager software at $44 American dollars, that fixes the 8 gig limit. Is it a waste of time and money in buying this, and hoping there are drivers for win2000? Is it a waste of time backing up my drives and reformating to fat16 then trying to install? or am i too cheap to buy a contemporary motherboard? :-) PS I have tryed to upgrade and install to a new directory all to no avail. PPS WINNT 4 cannot upgrade to a FAT32 partition, but i understand this is not the case for Windows 2000.	Guest (0)
15244	2001-07-09 21:52:00	hi Shane, I'm surprised it doesn't find your harddisk, are you running an upgrade from 98 or a fresh install? Try a fresh install if not. Windows 2K uses FAT32 so that's not your problem. Looking on intel's site, it seems that it is a stardard IDE controller, so you should still be able to use it with W2K, though you may not get the bus mastering performance out of it without special drivers. If you are running a fresh install and you are still seeing the 'no mass storage devices found' error message then during the early part of Setup, watch the bottom of the screen for a line that prompts you to press F6. Hit it, then give windows the disk with your hard disk controller drivers for W98. I'd be very surprised if they work, but can't hurt to try.. have fun!	Guest (0)
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