On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:03:25 +0300, Jimmy Neutron
<fake@email.invalid.com> wrote:

>Thank for your info.
>
>I got W2k installed finally using this:
>- I installed W2k from emergency diskettes
>- after boot when setup want fils from CD (which is not enabled due to fact that
>setup has not loaded IDE JMicron drivers) I just press cancel for each file.
>Luckily Windows still fuctions somewhat - lot of features are missing such as
>network etc.
>- At last hd and CDrom see each other. I copy the W2k cd to a temporary directory
>
>Then I do the whole setup again. But now I can give setup the directory where
>missing files are and windows can load the missing files from my temp hd
>directory.
>
>Thinking back this is perhaps more of a w2k setup problem of not loading critical
>drivers before continuing.
>
>


No, this Win2k setup issue is the same with XP.

You must have the RAID controller in the right mode and
supply the correct driver for that mode, and/or possibly
other things mentioned already.

This is no different than installing on any other 3rd party
chipset (drive controller), unless the correct jmicron
drivers were not supplied or your board bios is buggy.

It is good that you have it working now, but what you did
should not have been necessary (on Win2k or XP).