felix726
11-24-1999, 11:46 AM
Well here's the story! I got Windows NT 4.0 Workstation in this this software package through my college. I am trying to do a clean install on a formatted hard drive, and after about 2 days of beating my head against my desk I decided it's time to ask for some help. All I got in the software bundle was the CD, no floppy. So here is what I have done so far step by step.
1. I used a Windows 98 boot disk, accessed the CD-ROM and ran the installation program WINNT.EXE from the Windows NT CD-ROM.
2. Setup started and prompted me to insert 3 floppys one at a time and it created a windows NT setup boot disk, a Windows NT setup disk 2, and a Windows NT setup disk 3
3. After files were copied to the floppies setup began copying Windows NT files to my hard drive.
4. I was then prompted to reboot to the setup boot disk.
5. After reboot it copied some files from the boot disk and then prompted me to insert the setup disk 2 and it copied some files from that as well.
6. Next it did a scan for mass storage devices ( CD_ROM's, SCSI controllers etc..), and for this it needed the setup disk 3.
7. All this goes fine and it asks me to confirm what devices it found and I did.
8. At this point it try's to continue to the next step and then gives me this error message.
**Setup is unable to locate the hard drive partition prepared by the MS-DOS portion of setup.
When you run the MS-DOS Windows NT setup program , you must specify a temporary drive that is
supported by Windows NT.**
What the *&%# is that supposed to mean? I was never prompted to specify any temporary drive, and for that matter what do they mean temporary drive? The setup program never tried to partition and format the drive before copying files to it. I thought maybe I needed to set up the partition myself so I created 1 8gb FAT32 partition and tried the whole thing over and got the same error. I removed the partition and formatted again, tried again and same error. There's 6 hours of my life I can never get back. For the love of God can anyone help me out here. Can it really be this difficult to install this stupid OS. I mean it's not like it's the first time I've done something like this, I succesfully installed Win95, Win98, Red Hat Linux 5.2 and 6.0. Thanks in advance for any replies.
felix
1. I used a Windows 98 boot disk, accessed the CD-ROM and ran the installation program WINNT.EXE from the Windows NT CD-ROM.
2. Setup started and prompted me to insert 3 floppys one at a time and it created a windows NT setup boot disk, a Windows NT setup disk 2, and a Windows NT setup disk 3
3. After files were copied to the floppies setup began copying Windows NT files to my hard drive.
4. I was then prompted to reboot to the setup boot disk.
5. After reboot it copied some files from the boot disk and then prompted me to insert the setup disk 2 and it copied some files from that as well.
6. Next it did a scan for mass storage devices ( CD_ROM's, SCSI controllers etc..), and for this it needed the setup disk 3.
7. All this goes fine and it asks me to confirm what devices it found and I did.
8. At this point it try's to continue to the next step and then gives me this error message.
**Setup is unable to locate the hard drive partition prepared by the MS-DOS portion of setup.
When you run the MS-DOS Windows NT setup program , you must specify a temporary drive that is
supported by Windows NT.**
What the *&%# is that supposed to mean? I was never prompted to specify any temporary drive, and for that matter what do they mean temporary drive? The setup program never tried to partition and format the drive before copying files to it. I thought maybe I needed to set up the partition myself so I created 1 8gb FAT32 partition and tried the whole thing over and got the same error. I removed the partition and formatted again, tried again and same error. There's 6 hours of my life I can never get back. For the love of God can anyone help me out here. Can it really be this difficult to install this stupid OS. I mean it's not like it's the first time I've done something like this, I succesfully installed Win95, Win98, Red Hat Linux 5.2 and 6.0. Thanks in advance for any replies.
felix