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I am installing a 3 part training module on a compact 400+, running nt4, for a fire dept. Two of three modules have installed without incident. When installing the third module into the cd-rom tray (drive d) and try running the the setup.exe, a message box opens to inform me that drive e (zip drive) is not ready. I've already checked the .inf file which points to the d: drive.

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by nvpaladin

Have you tried doing a START....RUN....then type in D:\Setup.exe. Just an idea , but it does work sometimes.

Hope this helps

by shanghai sam

Yes, I have and thanks for the try. All to often we have all skipped over these little gotcha's. Here's what I've done so far in all the various start-up options (safe-mode ect...)Add/Remove programs, right click .inf>install, start>run d:\install.exe/setup.exe, I suspect this may have to do with a missing 16 bit DLL., I can copy files from the source disk to the hard drive well enough

by craig shepherd

Try taking the CDROM out physically, booting up without it, shutting down, putting it back in so that windows has to find it again.

by razzadaz

NOT BAD, NOT BAD....EXCEPT..............
by nature NT 4.0 is not plug-n-play like "WINDOWS" 98. I have already tried a similar solution you may not be aware of that might help you later on because Although Microsoft buried the option, a PnP driver is available on the NT 4.0 Server and Workstation CD-ROMs!
Using NT Explorer, go to the \drvlib\pnpisa\x86 directory on the NT 4.0 CD-ROM and find the pnpisa.inf file. If you right-click this file, NT gives you the option to install Pnpisa. I've also tried putting a disk in the zip drive while installing. I'm going to try installing on a 95 box as well. Keep it coming!!

by mtnsqs

Have you successfully installed the module on any other computer?? Could it be the CD or software itself is faulty?

Other thoughts - you do have enoght space and what about swap space etc.

What about copying all the fiels to a directory and then run setup.exe from that directory?

by razzadaz

No problems with copying files as that was already tried (see comment to answer one) But your answer is appreciated

I want to thank all of those who gave it a shot. Here's the solution with credit going to "Mr Myagi" of www. WinDrivers.com:
Drive not ready? Make ready.

Put a disc in the zip drive. Take this another step by going to Zip Tools>and turn off make disc non-removeable. Thanks again, more to come............

by dcosgrove

In addition to the above answer, I might try disabling the zip drive for the install and then reinstalling it. I have had similar trouble when win98 boot disks are used to install other OSs. The Ram Drive takes the D: designation in the registry and certain (usually older 16bit apps) contantly look for the CD on E:. Along the lines of the previous answer, maybe copy the 3rd CD to zip disk and try that. See you at the big one.

Dave.

by razzadaz

Nice...Nice....Very Nice...........

I didn't have to take it that far for a solution but copying to the zip might have been an alternate solution. If merely putting a blank zip in the bay didn't work.

I want to thank all of those who gave it a shot. Here's the solution with credit going to "Mr Myagi" of www. WinDrivers.com:

Drive not ready? Make ready.

Put a disc in the zip drive. Take this another step by going to Zip Tools>and turn off make disc non-removeable. Thanks again, more to come............

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