how to install windows 2000 on sata drives without needing a floppy / adding separate drivers during setup?
i want to install windows 2000 on a custom built desktop i have on a sata hdd / dvd burner, i researched a bit and a few people said that its possible to install sata hard drives on older operating systems that dont originally have sata drivers by simply using the ide mode in the bios and not needing any additional drivers, someone said this worked on both windows 2000 / xp. the only problem is, the motherboard's bios that i have, doesnt mention ide settings, the closest thing that i see is sata controller, where the options are either enable or disabled. the motherboard is an am3 motherboard, manufactured 2009, so i know i still can get drivers for other things as windows 2000 was still supported till 2010. but i dont want to receive the operating system, go up to setup and experience the error that the operating system didnt detect any drives. i also dont want to do the slipstream modification as i dont want to fiddle trying to get it to work like that and giving up later on because i couldn't get it to work. the motherboard has one floppy ide port, but no hdd / cd / dvd rom ide ports.
ewan, i have used windows 7 a lot in my computer builds and i like it, my laptop uses windows 7, the reason why i want to use windows 2000 is because i like also experimenting with older windows operating systems, i used windows 98 second edition and ran a full gigabyte of ram, and was able to watch youtube videos smoothly. as far as that goes, what you said about the ahci part, i cant seem to find that in the bios, i can look again though.
tumbleweed_biff, i wasnt asking for sata drivers, i was asking how to install sata drives in ide mode since apparently this allows for compatibility for older operating systems. there are actually windows 2000 sata drivers, just not official ones, i found them on some site, i dont remember the name but its not really that important because im just looking for basic functionality and wouldn't need them anyways.
ewan, i could not find anything that says ahci or ide / compatibility / legacy, i did disable the sata controller, saved the settings, rebooted, went back to the bios and see what changed but i didnt see any changes. could disabling the sata controller mean running in ide compatibilty mode perhaps? im just guessing, i researched this and i couldnt really find any valid information, this is the only thing i can think of.
turns out i was able to install w2000 on both the sata dvd burner and sata hard drive. i made a mistake though, disabling the sata controller actually makes it so none of the sata devices appeared, i renenabled it, both reappeared and went ahead and installed windows 2000 with no issues. only problem is i rushed through the formatting / partitioning process and i ended up only installing 80GB of the 320GB hdd i had due to errors, but its no problem, 80 GB is still plenty of space.
but now i have a different problem, i cant connect to the internet, or at least i dont know how, i tried to connect the computer using a wired ethernet connection, but the computer didnt even detect anything, i tried to use the wifi pci card i had on a different computer ( which does support windows 2000 ), but after installing, i received errors such as media disconnected / network cable unplugged.