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- DOCUMENT:Q101960 04-NOV-1993 [W_NT]
- TITLE :Problems During Setup on Systems with Optical Drives
- PRODUCT :Windows NT
- PROD/VER:3.10
- OPER/SYS:WINDOWS
- KEYWORDS:
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- The information in this article applies to:
-
- - Microsoft Windows NT operating system, version 3.1
- - Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server, version 3.1
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-
- SYMPTOMS
- ========
-
- You may encounter the following problems with Windows NT if you have
- an optical drive:
-
- - Mismatched drive letters. For example, the letters Setup displays
- during the text mode portion of Setup do not match the drive
- letters the system assigns to the drive when Windows NT is running.
-
- - Phantom free spaces or partitions on the optical drive during the
- partitioning portion of Setup.
-
- - Incorrect reporting of partitions on the optical drive. (These are
- usually off by a factor of 2.)
-
- - Problems formatting optical media, coping files to optical media,
- and so forth.
-
- CAUSE
- =====
-
- These symptoms usually occur when the optical media in the drive is
- using 1024-byte sectors instead of the 512-byte sectors (as expected).
- In this case, you should ignore partitions on the optical media and
- avoid selecting, creating, or deleting them (these operations may not
- be harmful in some cases, however this has not been fully tested).
-
- RESOLUTION
- ==========
-
- Ensure that your hard-disk-type removable media drives contain media
- before you run Windows NT Setup. Setup treats hard-disk-type removable
- media drives as ordinary hard disks; that is, an input/output (I/O)
- error resulting from no media in the drive appears similar to a
- general I/O error from a hard disk. These errors are usually
- considered fatal by Windows NT Setup, which prompts the message:
-
- An error occurred reading from or determining the configuration of
- a hard disk drive attached to your computer. This may indicate
- a hardware or configuration problem with a disk drive, disk
- controller, or SCSI adapter.
-
- Check cabling and ensure that all disk controllers and SCSI
- adapters installed in your computer are correctly configured and
- terminated.
-
- If you have a SCSI device that is not a hard disk, ensure that it
- is properly configured. For example, some SCSI adapters scan for
- hard disks at SCSI IDs 0 and 1. If you have a CD-ROM drive set to
- SCSI ID 0 or 1, try setting it to a different ID. Consult your SCSI
- adapter documentation for more details.
-
- Additional reference words: 3.10
- KBCategory:
- KBSubCategory: IOPUT HRDWR STP
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