Article ID: 151388
Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q151388
SYMPTOMS
When you run Setup from a network drive to a removable hard disk, you may
receive the following message during the GUI portion of Setup:
Please insert the floppy disk labeled 'Windows NT Workstation
CD-ROM' into drive C: and then click OK.
Setup continues once you click Browse, open the path to the temporary file
location (for example, C:\$win_nt$.~ls,) and then click OK.
This may occur several times during Setup.
CAUSE
This behavior occurs because Setup cannot distinguish between a removable
hard disk and a CD-ROM drive. As such, Setup expects a tag file to exist on
the source drive. The tag file is not normally copied from the installation
source. Additionally, if Setup is occurring over the network, then this
file is not accessible.
RESOLUTION
When you create the Windows NT source files on the network share, create an
$OEM$\C folder below the distribution folder and then copy the tag file
(Cdrom_w.40 for Windows NT Workstation and Cdrom_s.40 for Windows NT
Server) from the root of the CD-ROM to this folder.
This causes the tag file to be copied to the root of the C drive during the
text-mode portion of Setup, and prevents the dialog box from being
displayed.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 4.0. We
are researching this problem and will post new information here in the
Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.
Additional query words: prodnt unattended removable
Keywords: kbsetup KB151388