Windows NT 4.0 wont install
Hello, I'm having a wierd problem here and I would like some help from somebody that had this problem. Advices welcome! I have this system a PIII700 w/ the 694D Pro motherboard and 2 Western Digital HD of 20 GIG plugged into the RAID, I installed Windows 2000 and no problems at all, everthing strait forward.
Hello,
I'm having a wierd problem here and I would like some help from somebody that had this problem. Advices welcome!
I have this system a PIII700 w/ the 694D Pro motherboard and 2 Western Digital HD of 20 GIG plugged into the RAID, I installed Windows 2000 and no problems at all, everthing strait forward.
When I tired to intall Windows NT 4.0 in the installation screen I set up to supply the NT drivers for the RAID Lite (on board) and it recognizes it, but when the screen that we have the option to choose where to intall it, I receive a message that there is no HD installed, to check the cables and bla bla bla...
I tired the latest drivers for the RAID and I also updated the BIOS.
Windows2000 installed normally but NT not. Any Ideas??
Thanks anyway
FTM
I'm having a wierd problem here and I would like some help from somebody that had this problem. Advices welcome!
I have this system a PIII700 w/ the 694D Pro motherboard and 2 Western Digital HD of 20 GIG plugged into the RAID, I installed Windows 2000 and no problems at all, everthing strait forward.
When I tired to intall Windows NT 4.0 in the installation screen I set up to supply the NT drivers for the RAID Lite (on board) and it recognizes it, but when the screen that we have the option to choose where to intall it, I receive a message that there is no HD installed, to check the cables and bla bla bla...
I tired the latest drivers for the RAID and I also updated the BIOS.
Windows2000 installed normally but NT not. Any Ideas??
Thanks anyway
FTM
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If you are installing from one of those newer bootable CD's you have to press F6 during the beginning of boot, just like in Win2k. You never see the option to do so, just do it. Load your raid-drivers.
The option that come later to press "S" never works if you boot from the CD.
Hope that helped you.
/Toby
The option that come later to press "S" never works if you boot from the CD.
Hope that helped you.
/Toby
Thanks for the useful information....
Well I booted WinNT from the CD-ROM and before the screen that presents you w/ the S option to add a new device driver, I was pushing F6 like crazy and I got a screen telling me to insert the floppy disk that contain the driver for the Fasttrak RAID that I have onboard... perfect!! after that it recognized my 40 gig Hard drive! (2 western digital HD in RAID)....
But it did not allow me to install it... it says that the partion on the Fasttrak is not recognized by WindowsNT.
This is the options that I have:
Fasttrak
Windows95 (FAT32) 32059MB
Windows95 (FAT32) 7083MB
I tried to install on both and I kept getting the same message that Windows NT cannot recognize the partition..... Any ideas??
Actually I want to install it the in second partition.... but it is not even installing o the second one......
Thankssss guyssss
FTM
Well I booted WinNT from the CD-ROM and before the screen that presents you w/ the S option to add a new device driver, I was pushing F6 like crazy and I got a screen telling me to insert the floppy disk that contain the driver for the Fasttrak RAID that I have onboard... perfect!! after that it recognized my 40 gig Hard drive! (2 western digital HD in RAID)....
But it did not allow me to install it... it says that the partion on the Fasttrak is not recognized by WindowsNT.
This is the options that I have:
Fasttrak
Windows95 (FAT32) 32059MB
Windows95 (FAT32) 7083MB
I tried to install on both and I kept getting the same message that Windows NT cannot recognize the partition..... Any ideas??
Actually I want to install it the in second partition.... but it is not even installing o the second one......
Thankssss guyssss
FTM
NT4 does not support FAT32. If you got Win2k on your first partition you can convert it to NTFS. (coz the first partition got to be NTFS or FAT16 for the startup files)
Then delete the second partition during the NT4 setup and create a new NTFS partition there.
Warning, NT4 only supported max 4GB systempartitions back in the days
but with your bootable cd (newer release) you can make it larger (whole partition). I have seen some **** with "inaccessable boot-device" after installation on large drives. Install SP6a as soon as possible.
This is from memory, I have not installed NT4 with dualboot since the betas of win2k and at work I never create system-partitions larger than 4GB when installing NT4, so let some other reply to this and correct me incase I'm wrong at some point before you start anything.
/Toby
Then delete the second partition during the NT4 setup and create a new NTFS partition there.
Warning, NT4 only supported max 4GB systempartitions back in the days
but with your bootable cd (newer release) you can make it larger (whole partition). I have seen some **** with "inaccessable boot-device" after installation on large drives. Install SP6a as soon as possible.
This is from memory, I have not installed NT4 with dualboot since the betas of win2k and at work I never create system-partitions larger than 4GB when installing NT4, so let some other reply to this and correct me incase I'm wrong at some point before you start anything.
/Toby
hmm, what I wrote was not correct. Check this out: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q224/5/26.ASP
Also check the links at the end of the page...
You could always start all over if you want. Backup your data and whipe the partitions, install NT4 and then Win2k on two new partitions.
Or you can take a look at VolumeManager from Powerquest. (Some new app, I'm sceptic)
http://www.powerquest.com/volumemanager/
/Toby
Also check the links at the end of the page...
You could always start all over if you want. Backup your data and whipe the partitions, install NT4 and then Win2k on two new partitions.
Or you can take a look at VolumeManager from Powerquest. (Some new app, I'm sceptic)
http://www.powerquest.com/volumemanager/
/Toby
Thanks for all help guys!
Now it's working.... It wouldn't install because the partitions were Fat32.... I had to create a 2Gig FAT partition to install WindowsNT 4.0.
Now I'm having some headaches associated with hardware support and drivers support.... hehehe
I just installed this system for educational purposes......
Anyway thanks again....
FTM
Now it's working.... It wouldn't install because the partitions were Fat32.... I had to create a 2Gig FAT partition to install WindowsNT 4.0.
Now I'm having some headaches associated with hardware support and drivers support.... hehehe
I just installed this system for educational purposes......
Anyway thanks again....
FTM
