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- Microsoft Windows NT, Beta October 1992
- "Please Insert Disk #6" error in text Setup on floppy installation
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- The Microsoft Windows NT product group has recently identified a floppy disk
- setup problem with the October Beta release of Windows NT. On certain
- systems, an error may occur during installation. When the message "Please
- Insert Disk #6" appears, and Disk #6 is inserted and the error continues
- to recur, the installation of Windows NT is prevented. If you attempt
- floppy disk installation, you may experience this problem.
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- The behavior occurs due to a problem identified in the floppy driver provided
- in the Beta release and FLOPPY.SYS was not attempting to retry the operation
- in the presence of this error. If the error occurs, you will be unable to
- complete installation from floppy disk which may leave your system in an
- inconsistent state. Quit the Setup program and boot from an MS-DOS floppy
- boot disk. The system may require that you run the MS-DOS SYS utility on
- the hard drive to recover your environment. Follow the instructions below
- before attempting to reinstall Windows NT again from floppy disk.
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- If you encounter this problem, please take the following steps to replace
- the driver as instructed. We appreciate our customers efforts in
- reporting problem areas and encourage you to continue working with us to
- improve the product. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have
- caused.
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- To retrieve the corrected files from the WINNT CompuServe forum:
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- Connect to the WINNT CompuServe forum, Library 2 where you will find
- WNT004.ZIP. This file was created using the PKZIP file compression
- utility. You will need the PKUNZIP utility to extract the files to
- a directory on your hard drive. PKUNZIP can be found as PKZ110.EXE
- in Library 2 of the IBMCOM forum. Download PKZ110.EXE and execute
- the file to extract the PKUNZIP.EXE utility. Create a directory on
- your hard disk where the extracted files can be placed. For example,
- C:\WNT004. To extract the WNT004.ZIP file, type:
- PKUNZIP WNT004.ZIP C:\WNT004
- to decompress the files into the directory. The following files can
- now be seen:
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- FLOPPY.SY$
- README.TXT
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- To apply the affected driver:
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- If you utilize a system with only one 3.5" floppy disk drive, take the
- following steps unless you have a double floppy drive system.
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- 1. Insert the floppy disk into the floppy disk drive containing the
- updated version of FLOPPY.SY$.
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- 2. Using the File Manager or copy command, copy FLOPPY.SY$ located
- on the patch diskette to a location on your hard disk. For example, File,
- Copy, To: C:\.
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- 3. Remove the patch diskette and insert Disk #6 of the Windows NT
- floppy disk install set into the disk drive.
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- 4. Using the File Manager, locate FLOPPY.SY$ on the hard drive and copy
- directly to the root of Disk #6 replacing the failing driver. For example,
- File, Copy, To: A:
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- 5. You may now attempt to reinstall Windows NT from floppy disk.
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