Windows 2000 installer can't see HDD

[dc_firedrake]

I have two hard drives installed (a 10 and 30Gb) and am currently running Windows 98...

Everything works fine, except if I try to boot from the 2k install disk setup will halt saying it does not detect any hard drives on my system... If I try to upgrade from 98 to 2k setup blue screens with "Inaccessible boot device" blah blah blah.

This is getting pretty annoying... Anything I can do?

 

[Endeavour]

Verify jumper position select on your drives. For Win 2k, they have to be set as master and slave. If you set to cable select, this issue of non-detecting could happen. Also verify if the HDD's are not with errors on their MFT (win2k also works a lot better using NTFS). Partition Magic 8.0 is also an excellent tool to verify/correct disks issues of all kinds, whem the problem is with partitions set and file system issues.