Problem Installing Windows NT 4.0 Server...
Scott
98. I planed to delete it and install Windows NT 4.0 Server. I figured the
best way to delete the existing OS was to boot off a DOS 6.22 disk and
delete the partition using F-Disk. I went ahead and did this, deleting the
primary partition. I then re-created a FAT16 partition.
Once that was all straightened out, I put in the Windows NT 4.0 Server
boot disk and proceeded with the install. After i got through the mass
storage section it gave me an error stating:
Setup is unable to locate the hard drive partition prepared by the MS-DOS
portion of setup.........
.......setup is unable to continue... press F3 to exit.
And thats where it leaves me. I've tried to install it with and without a
single partition on the hard disk. The hard drive is 16.8Gigs.. I'm not
sure weather or not that matters, the bios doesn't need an overlay to
recognize it either.
Well, thats all there really is. If anyone knows how to fix this
problem, please write.. asap, for my new machine is currently unusable...
Thanks I/A -=Scott
Andy Doran
Scott <ssy...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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Peter Smith
The usual reason for this is that the install program is looking for the
hard drive partition somewhere else. Have a look at the .SIF file on the
second of the boot disks (I think it's NTSETUP.SIF, but don't have a set
handy and my memory is not what it was!). If the boot disks were made on
another machine, you may find a reference to the hard disk on that machine.
Just delete the .SIF file and try again.
Scott wrote in message <6vju00$k3v$1...@fir.prod.itd.earthlink.net>...
<snip>>
>Setup is unable to locate the hard drive partition prepared by the MS-DOS
>portion of setup.........
>
<snip>
Derek Wilson
only see (reconginze) up to 4 GB. You will probably have to re-partition your
disk into at least 2 partitions. One for the OS, and the remaining space for
apps, etc.
Scott wrote:
> I recently bought a new PC from Dell. The PC came loaded with Windows
> 98. I planed to delete it and install Windows NT 4.0 Server. I figured the
> best way to delete the existing OS was to boot off a DOS 6.22 disk and
> delete the partition using F-Disk. I went ahead and did this, deleting the
> primary partition. I then re-created a FAT16 partition.
> Once that was all straightened out, I put in the Windows NT 4.0 Server
> boot disk and proceeded with the install. After i got through the mass
> storage section it gave me an error stating:
>
> Setup is unable to locate the hard drive partition prepared by the MS-DOS
> portion of setup.........
>
Henry Schlarb
let NT do all of the partitioning for the system. Once completed, he can use
Disk Manager to create the other logical partitions on the drive.
Derek Wilson <wil...@dialupnet.com> wrote in message
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DualIP
unpartitioned-unformatted.
The first MS-DOS based part of setup needs FAT16!
Install NT4 on this partition (during install you can convert it to
NTFS)
With NT4 diskmanager make the free space a huge NTFS data partition
Nick Milne
(eg fat to NTFS, and vice versa) without losing any data
Derek Wilson wrote in message <36EACF0C...@dialupnet.com>...
Roger Atkinson
partition
using the NT Server Install program. I've had this problem in the past
and
letting the Install program create the partition for me has always
worked.
This ofcourse assumes that the NT Setup has detected and installed a
driver
for your disk. We just set up a couple of new Servers from Dell that i
had
to break out of the Setup (F6) and install the driver for the U2W SCSI
controller
other wise NT Server would not find the drive at all to even do the
install.
HTH, Roger Atkinson Cubic Sys Admin