Ok, I FINALLY GOT WIN2K3 WORKING using nlite RC1 and Nvidia 6.69 drivers per Fernando's recommendations

Then I needed to change my cluster size (yes, I "needed to" lol) and I was able to change it to 8192k on the raid0 array (C drive). I then started the nlite cd and ran setup. Windows seen the array fine, and installed on the C Drive first partition. After coping all the files, it rebooted, then I got a "A Disk read error occured - press ctrl-alt-del to reboot"

This was working fine before, but now something is not right?

I have it set to boot from HD after the CD...Nothing has changed since it worked fine before a few hours ago?

same prob, i thought it was sp2 lol

This problem goes way back and I would really like to know if it's fixable...anyone ?

Would it be possible that RC3 would work? I did use RC1 since thats the only vers that I could get working with .Net?

Thanks

Ok I searched a little and found out that this is not nLite problem.

Here is the solution, if someone confirms we could arrange some option...

http://forum.abit-usa.com/showpost.php?p=428277&postcount=17

I don't really think this will solve your problem, but do you format the partition using a M$ tool or something from an other company ?

I had some problems with partition magic.


If you want to try this : use BartPE/UBCD4Win.

That post refers to XP w/SP2. I am running Win2k3 SP1. I thought I would do the same and use the recommendations from pre-SP1. Well after doing that with an old Win2k3 disc I found, it did not work. However, I am not too sure the quality of that disc, so I will get a "good" copy of Win2k3 tomorrow and try again.


Camarade_Tux:

I actually used BartPE but used the native cmd line to format it.....So no 3rd party tols involved there
I think the formating is fine, its just Win2k3 with SP1??

sp1 in 2k3, is like sp2 in xp

It's possible that the "bad" files have changed on w2k3.

An other possibility is that win2k3 even without SP1 can't install on such a system.


Humm, what ?
Win2003 R2 ?
Toolstore ?
Shipped in 2 to 3 weeks ?








PS : what' your mobo ?
A-bit ?

Hey bud....Thats a good question as Win2k3 might not work at all, or it might have diff files that were changed with SP1.....I have not found an orig Win2k3 CD yet...

I dont have R2 yet Not sure if that would work, but it would be nice to have...

Using a DFI Ultra MB with Nvidia NF4 chipset....

In fact, you'd only need 3 files from R2.

Now, the hardest, find somebody to send them to you.

Are you saying that R2 will work fine by itself, and\or if I copy only those files? I did not know R2 was known to work?
I guess I will start "looking around for it" ....

origional would be most likly to work, imho

I don't know if R2 will work.

I just think it's likely that m$ solved it (or at least, tried to).

Not for us of course, but for bigger companies.

I came across this problem a bit back when I tried to increase my cluster size on an XP SP2 system. It has nothing to do with nlite at all. Apparently Microsoft changed one of the boot files (NTLDR I think), and it now only recognises 4k clusters. Presumably the same change would apply on both XP SP2 and 2K3 SP1.

I replaced my Win2k's NTDETECT.COM and ntldr with XP Sp2 versions, and then used another harddrive(IDE - later removed) to pre-format the SATA drive into 64kb cluster size partitions.

It now boots from 64kb clusters using a Silicon Image SATA 3112 Raid Controller. Nothing to do with RAID, but the problem is obviously RAID related and not totally cluster size related, or it also involves some other files aswell since those two work fine on my system.

I have not tried to replace those specific files from Win2k, but I did try to use non-SP1 of Win2k3 to do this install thinking that SP1 was the culprit.....NO GO.......Same error on first boot.

I put it back to 4KB clusters and let Win2k3 build

I was the one who had posted the solution at ABIT forums.

http://forum.abit-usa.com/showpost.php?p=6...8&postcount=508

This might help you. If you have a dos hex editor or a dual boot system you might be able to edit the mbr on the raid partition.

....Just to let ya'll know - NTDETECT.COM and NTLDR has nothing to do at all over here.

D*** I wish I had seen this thread before I tried to reuse my windows 2k disk system, now I have to reinstall 2k, then find somewhere to stuff hundreds of GBs of crap to start over with XP

The weird thing is, even though my OS partition was only ~50gb and I wiped that, apparently just because my 64k stripe data partition is on the same array, the MBR data is still a problem

What id*** decided to cap at 4k clusters with SP2...they suck for large files