Zulan Posted September 8, 2001 Share Posted September 8, 2001 My machine can't boot up from the CD. I'm running a SCSI card and an IDE RAID card so my bios get's all confused, I've tried anythink I can think of but it just wont boot. I have the disks on the IDE RAID and the cd drive on the SCSI card so I can't just remove 1 card for the installation. I can't find any boot disk creators on the cd either? Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xper Posted September 8, 2001 Share Posted September 8, 2001 winxp to hd and run it from thereor boot with win98/winme boot disk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zulan Posted September 8, 2001 Author Share Posted September 8, 2001 I have the same problem in w2k. When ever I try to start the installtion from dos it says This program cannot be runin DOS mode? Should I use some sort of switch or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zulan Posted September 8, 2001 Author Share Posted September 8, 2001 It seems that winnt.exe will start the installation, but that doesn't give me the option to load the drivers for my IDE controller card? What can I do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted September 8, 2001 Share Posted September 8, 2001 Don't run setup.exe in DOS.Load up smartdrv.exe from a bootdisk (win98 ) and then run x:i386winnt.exewhere 'x' is your CD-ROM Drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zulan Posted September 8, 2001 Author Share Posted September 8, 2001 I've been trying to find a list of all the switches for winnt.exe but I can only find it for w2k. There doesn't seem to be anything giving me the "F6" option... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zulan Posted September 8, 2001 Author Share Posted September 8, 2001 It works! I just didn't wait long enouff to see it start working.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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