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Section 6
Windows 2000 Driver Installation
(QL2300.SYS)
6.1
Introduction
This section provides instructions for installing the Windows 2000 driver under the
following operating system conditions:
■ Initial installation of the Windows 2000 operating system and the
Windows 2000 driver
■ Installation of the Windows 2000 driver in an already installed Windows 2000
operating system
■ Installing an updated Windows 2000 driver in an already installed
Windows 2000 operating system that has an older version of the driver
6.2
Creating the Driver Disk
Follow these steps to create driver disk containing the files needed to install the
Windows XP driver:
1. Locate the driver you want on the QLogic web site (http://www.qlogic.com)
and click Link to driver.
2. If prompted What would you like to do with this file?, choose Save this
program to disk. Specify a temporary location on the hard drive and
download the driver.
3. Insert a blank disk in drive A.
4. Run the self-extracting file you just downloaded, specifying A:\ for Unzip
To Folder.
6.3
Windows 2000 Installation
To install Windows 2000 on your system, perform the installation procedures in
section 6.3.1. If Windows 2000 is already loaded on your system, perform the
installation procedures in section 6.3.2. If Windows 2000 and an older
Windows 2000 driver are already installed on your system, perform the update
procedures in section 6.3.3.