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NT Installation from floppies

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by siis

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When attempting to install NT from the 3 boot disks the installtion comes to the point where disk partitioning and formatting takes place, but cannot recognize the physical disk installed. I receive the error indicating no partition for installationhas been detected. This only happens when attempting to install from floppies. When installing directly from the CD- no problem. Just curious as to what this could be.

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by misha

Is your hard drives partitioned-formatted?
And if yes - what is your file system?
As I know WinNT dont work with FAT32.

Misha.

by rrichards

Take a look at the hard drive controller that shows up during the load. Does it show anything or nothing? You may have to manually load a device driver from a third party disk. I ran into this with earlier Compaq servers and had to use third party (Compaq) driver disks.
Hope this helps

by bill cassada

If you are using SCSI there is a known issue with some SCSI controllers not being recognized when using the floppies...you will have to add the drivers manually during the setup....press after the setup starts to get to this screen to add devices.

by susan.krohn-lane

if you are using scsi or raid system, press the F6 key when setup start looking for devices on your system. You can then use the S option and install your proper drivers for your system from the manufacturers driver diskette. This is especially a problem in Dell and some HP setups.

by simpsin

Most of the anwsers above are correct but not complete (at least I think) the diffrence is that althout troughout the years, the CD version of the NT installer had added drivers, the Disks version was not up-dated. That's why you need to add driversto support whatever hardware you are trying to install on. On the other hand, if you have a new hardware that is not recognised by the CD version, you will have to start the install from the disks since de CD version does not allow you to add new drivers at the start of the install process.

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