Err Msg: Setup is Unable to Locate the Hard Drive...
Article ID: 110695
Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.1
- Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.5
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.51
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q110695
During Windows NT Setup, just after Setup restarts your computer, the
following error message may appear:
Setup is unable to locate the hard drive partition prepared by the
MS-DOS portion of setup.
Setup (WINNT.EXE) by default places temporary files on the first available
drive with enough free space, but because WINNT.EXE can see drives that
Windows NT may or may not support, sometimes these temporary files become
inaccessible to Setup. (Unsupported drives may be compressed drives,
unsupported SCSI drives, or drives on secondary IDE or ESDI controllers.)
To work around this problem, use the /T switch with the WINNT command. The
/T switch specifies the target drive to which temporary files will be
stored by Setup.
For additional information, please see the following article(s) in the
Microsoft Knowledge Base:
ARTICLE-ID: 132739
TITLE : Setup Disks Created With WINNT /O Fail To Find Hard Disk
Additional query words: prodnt
Keywords: kbsetup KB110695