needing to pick your brains.....

[WarPiper]

...ok, I know that this is a amiga site, ok ok, but for some reason I dont seem to trust any other bunch of egg heads that are out on the net, this is a Microsloft question about Winblows 2000 pro. so please dont flame, if you dont know the answer I understand.

I have a IEEE1394 firewire card and an  external 200 GB hard drive, I need to install windows 2000 pro on the external drive but for some reason, windows says that it is unable to do so.

what is the best way of going about installing w2k on a firewire drive with a system running windblows 98se.

 :-?  :-?  :-?  :-?  :huh:

[WarPiper]

what no takers?

oh well, and here I thought that alot of you amiga users who do nothing but put windows down all the time actually knew your sh!t.

maybe not

[WarPiper]

ok

1) the computer is ancient (think about 3 to 4 years, no bios updates, Gateway crap)

2) windoze 98se does detect the drive as a removable drive, but there is no way of making partitions, but does act like I can make one giant partition the whole 200 Gigs

3) Fdisk does not recognize the drive when displaying partition information

4) the drive is a Maxtor diamondmax 200 Gb Ultra ata133 IDE hard drive installed in a external firewire box (made to do so), when loading from win2kpro boot floppies, win2k setup would partition it, but not install the OS, I am tring to make 8 partitions at 25 Gb each for use as either storage only or to also nclude a OS for use as a dual boot.