First post, by feipoa
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Does anyone know how to force the installation of SCSI host controller drivers in Windows 2000 when the SCSI host controller is not presently installed? This works in NT4 just fine, but for W2K, when you are installing device drivers through add/remove hardware, W2K insists on seeing the device present before it will install the SCSI drivers.
Unfortunately, I do not have an extra PCI slot to install the SCSI drivers in. The board has two PCI slots - video, and SCSI controller A. If I want to switch the host controller from SCSI controller A, but keep the same hard drive, I need to install the drivers for controller B while still having controller A running. If I had a 3rd PCI slot, I could do this. If I have just the 2 PCI slots, but am only using NT4 or Win9x, I can force install the drivers for controller B without it being present. But how to force install SCSI drivers in W2K with the controller B not being present?
Thanks!
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