Why is this so damn difficult?!?

[Darkheart]

I have a U160 15000 RPM SCSI HDD and I want it to be my system drive.
I have 2 UDMA HDD's I want to use for mass storage.
I want my SCSI drive to be my C:
I want to set letters for my UDMA drives.
I want the system not to lockup when it restarts
I want to use Windows XP.
My Adaptec SCSI Controller has SCSI BIOS.


Sounds like it should be easy yeah?

First time round:

Installed virgin SCSI disk with other 2 disks in system.
Partition SCSI disk and install
Everything seems ok.
However I notice a activity on the IDE HDD during restarts.
Notice some key files (NTDLR, NTOSKERNEL) have ended up on the IDE DISK.
WTF? I didn't tell it to do that.
Also my IDE HDD is now C: and is a boot and system disc and cannot be changed.

DARN

Second Try:

Disable IDE HDD's
Clear SCSI HDD
Reinstall XP with SCSI HDD only present
On completion everything fine enable IDE HDD's.
Blue Screen + STOP errors + Booting from wrong places

Bah

Third go:

Pay 40 darmn quid for Partition Magic 8, cr@p partition magic can't do sh!t to solve this problem.

Fourth go:

Remove System/Boot tag from IDE disc (transfer everything to the other two disks and then repartition) build onto SCSI HDD again. Modifiy boot.ini to what it WILL be then introduce 2 disks now with neither as boot records or as system disks.

Everything does work but system is REALLY SLOW, and bluescreens and just does not seem happy.

Fifth Go:

Buy new IDE HDD, copy everything to that put on seperate channel.
Leave IDE HDD off during the partition format and build stage and only bring the IDE disk in for the "Finalising" stage of the NT build.

NTDLR, NTOSKERNAL etc. STILL END UP ON THE DRIVE AND THE DRIVE STILL BECOMES A F******* SYSTEM PARTITION THAT CANNOT BE CHANGED.

Swear profussely.

Beg forum dwellers for help...

Darkheart

[fearfox]

okay not sure, what your problem is here, okay try first .

1.Installing XP on SCSI, disconnect both other ide hdd. (including power plug and ide cable)
2. Once Xp installation is complete and done after reactivation or registration.
3. Then connect one IDE HDD
4.Xp should auto detect it and assign drive letter
5.Repeat same step with other HDD as previous


Have you tried this???


Hope this helps

David

[eGoCeNTRoNiX]

Is there a setting in the Main Bios that needs to be changed? I don't know how scsi or IDE work together, but possibly there's a bios setting that needs to be changed.. eGo

[Busby]

It seems as though your BIOS is saying to boot from the IDE HDD. Also, your IDE HDD is probably set to active and is considered bootable. You might wanna check and see what type of partition it is too, a primary partition will be labeled over a extended/logical drive on your SCSI HDD. Here is what I think you should do:

1. Change BIOS boot options to SCSI.
1. Backup IDE data if possible.
2. Reparition IDE HD, delete all partitions in fdisk or using WinXP setup.
3. Install WinXP on SCSI drive with the newly partitioned IDE HD.
4. Format IDE HD partitions in WinXP.


That should, theoretically solve your problems. Good luck.