another windows installation problem...... (SCSI)

[transporter]

OK so i do the
1. boot from CD
2. new partion
3. installs fine
4. red restart progress bar
5. fails------------- when it is going to boot from hard drive and begins GUI part of setup

THIS IS THE ERROR

Windows could not start because of a computer hardware configuration problem.
Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware.
Please check the windows documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information.


This is what is CAUSING THE PROBLEM somehow

My SCSI drive setup because it works fine without the controller card and use an IDE.
i have 4            9.1 gig IBM Type DGVS      SCSI hard drives
and      Mega trend enterprize 1200 series   SCSI controller

i have got windows xp professional to install before but never windows sever 2003

This is what I've TRIED
1.each drive separate
2. two drives at a time
3. all four drives at once
4. downloading drivers for my SCSI card


please help any ideas would be great!

[DaveLembke]

I'd buy a newer adaptec SCSI controller that supports Server 2003. Guessing that your controller is an older one being that it is paired up with four 9.1GB SCSI drives. If you dont need anything but RAID 0 or RAID 1, you can get a cheap Adaptec controller, but if you need RAID 5, that will cost more.

This would not be the first device I have seen not quite compatible with Server 2003. I had some older NICs that didnt work quite right as well as an older SATA controller.

[Eg0Death]

Do you load the SCSI drivers at the beginning of the Windows installation?  The installation pauses for a few seconds and "Press F4 to load RAID or SCSI drivers" is displayed at the bottom of the screen. 

[programming_pat]

the installaltion process will reqire the SCSI drivers to work with your hdd. Have you tried what Eg0Death suggested?

Do you load the SCSI drivers at the beginning of the Windows installation?  The installation pauses for a few seconds and "Press F4 to load RAID or SCSI drivers" is displayed at the bottom of the screen. 

[transporter]

Well I didn't actually load the drivers that i downloaded i pressed f4 but then it said that it had a newer driver for the card i was using...... or sumthing I'll go home and try it.

again i tried just loading xp professional and it worked perfectally it is something software hear and i can't quite figure it it.

i will go home and try it with the older driver i downloaded and see if it works.

any other ideas would be great thank you for all the help.

[transporter]

windows server 2003 still not working...........

any ideas other than getting a new card?

could it be a bios setting? perhaps