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by aspiring_one

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I have built a new computer and I am having trouble installing Windows NT 4.0 on the SCSI hard drive. For some reason, it seems that NT stalls once it begins to look at the system hardware.

Does anyone know of any issues regarding the installation of Windows NT 4.0 on a single SCSI hard disk? I'm not talking about a RAID assembly, only a single drive.

A friend of mine told me before that the best way to do this is to set NT up on an IDE drive and use the SCSI drive for storage. Does anyone know if this is true. If so, why?

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by software architect

You may be experincing an incompatatibility problem with hardware. Have you checked MS NT compatitable list for the hardware you have? I had a similar problem and it was related to the memory. I have installed NT on single scusi with no problem once I had everything comptatible according to MS

by tony.colgrove

I have never ran into any issues installing NT on SCSI drives. If this is a newer controller and SCSI drive you WANT NT on SCSI, before IDE. What should be done is during the text based portion of the install supply the SCSI manufactures drivers.Most of the time you can trust what NT detects, but it is best to use the latest and greatest. If you have an older SCSI drive and controller then it might be better just for storage. UDMA100/66/33 is faster then originial SCSI, and FastSCSI stardards, but if you have a UltraWide UW2 or SCSI3 (I now I have left some out) go for SCSI.

by tgotschall

You can use the NTHQ (NT Hardware Qualifier) to check your controller for compatability. Use the makedisk utility to create a floppy to create this utility. Also check with your Controller manufacturer for the latest driver for NT 4.0. If they have one, then may be able to use the manual device selection option during installation to specify the Controller.

by joshua1

You should just need to choose Specify additional drivers, and put in a driver diskette for your SCSI controller. If that's not working, verify that your controller is supported by NT. That's all I got!

by bill cassada

When installing to a SCSI hard drive the main prob is that NT on CD doesn't support all the newer SCSI drives, therefore all sorts of problems can arise. Best bet is to use the little known key right after the install procedure begins so that you can let NT load the mfr device driver for that hard drive. All should (hopefully) run smooth after that.

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