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Setup cannot find my SCSI harddrive

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by mauricegraham

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Install Windows NT 4.0 but it says it cannot find my harddrive. During boot up it shows my Adaptec 29160 SCSI Adapter and the harddrive (I can format the harddrive using the SCSI utilities), but NT setup keeps saying that it cannot find the harddrive. I tried manually selecting my mass storage device, but it says that device is not present in my machine. It does find my IDE CD-ROM fine.

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by yorkster

what you need to do is when you get the first setup screen in the NT install press f6 to install a thrid party driver (you will not see a prompt about pressing f6 but do it anyway) when you get prompted select "S" to specifie a driver and have your SCSI drivers ready. after this it's a normal install
hope this helps.

by gutridgesj

are you booting from the nt cd or using the 3 floppy's? Some controllers are not found if you boot from the nt cd and install that way. i forget the sequence to press to make it work so i usually just boot off the 3 floppy's. also, be sure to putthe floppy in for the adaptec drivers for nt at the mass storage screen. I have not done so yet, but you could also check the NT hardware compatibility list to see if that controller is supported under NT 4.

if you have done all this already, let me know.

by pcon

As previously stated, you must press F6 at the initial setup screen. It will NOT prompt you to do this, but it will work. Make sure you have the SCSI drivers for your SCSI card on a floppy.

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