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NT4 install cant see SCSI HDD

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Name: njs
Date: June 28, 2003 at 11:40:05 Pacific
OS: NT4 server
CPU/Ram: 866/512MB
Comment:

I just backed up our old server (NT4 server SP6a), and try to install a fresh copy again.

Hardware
P3-866, 512MB PC133
Adaptec 29160N
Seagate Barrucuda 9GB U160

When I am prompted for the drivers during install, I slide in the floppy with the drivers (from Adaptec site), NT4 recognised the drivers and then the next screen informed me the following :

Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer.

I am kinda lost, as the same hardware were running NT4 happyly, plus I also did a Adpatec drive test under the Adpatec BIOS and the drive tested fine, if I boot from Win98 floppy, I can format and FDISK the HDD without any problem.

I have also tried the previous driver release but with same result that it cant find the 9GB HDD.

Can anyone help ? Many thanks



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Name: wanderer
Date: June 28, 2003 at 15:30:31 Pacific
Reply:

don't wait for the driver gui but hit f6 during the detection phase. Add the driver then. Make sure its the NT driver not the 9x/w2k/xp version.


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Response Number 2
Name: hwood
Date: July 2, 2003 at 21:35:26 Pacific
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Njs:

View the floppy directory structure on another machine. Look for where the actual drivers are stored. For instance instead of telling the NT install program to go to A:\ you may have to specify A:\WINNT or A:\WINNT\


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