How to swap scsi cdrom to ide version in W2000

[keoh]

I have a system with a scsi cdrom and scsi cdrw that I'm thinking of upgrading - but changing to ide versions, (partly for reasons of cost) - but I'm anticipating trouble with the swap, especially the cdrom as that's where W2000 was installed from.

As a test on a similar system that has only a scsi cdrw (no 2nd cdrom) I disabled the cdrw and uninstalled, but as expected the system wouldn't boot at all - in fact it wouldn't complete the p.o.s.t.

For W2000 OS repair and upgrade, not to mention the other apps, doesn't the registry or otherwise need to be updated somehow ? . . . that the cdrom from where they were loaded has now changed?

How do you do this swap without errors?

My system is this:
W2000
Asus A7V133
IBM 40G ide drive on prim. ide controller
Adaptec 2940 scsi card with
Toshiba scsi cdrom
Plextor scsi cdrw

 

[mainegeek]

Depending on where the CDRW is on the chain you may
or may not have to terminate it when you remove the CD-Rom.
If you remove both CD-Roms and you have external scsi devices then you will won't to terminate the scsi controller.