Windows Nt Installation And Configuration Notes - Adaptec ARO-1130U2 Installation And Hardware Manual

Windows NT Installation and Configuration Notes

Windows NT 1 GByte Partition Limitation
During Windows NT installation, if your system configuration has
multiple arrays and/or single drives, Windows NT limits the size of
the partitions you can create to 1 GByte. To work around this
1 GByte limitation, try the following:
During Windows NT installation, create the 1 GByte partition
(do not finish setup); reboot the system and then delete the
partition. This allows Windows NT Setup to create a system
partition larger than 1 GByte, but limited to 4 GBytes or 1024
cylinders of data, whichever is less.
or
Using MS-DOS, create a partition using FDISK. During
Windows NT installation, delete the partition created with
MS-DOS. This allows Windows NT Setup to create a system
partition larger than 1 GByte, but limited to 4 GBytes or 1024
cylinders of data, whichever is less.
If Windows NT Setup Hangs
During Windows NT installation, the system may hang while the
Windows NT Setup floppy diskette is being used to copy the SCSI
disk device driver. A workaround is to boot from a DOS boot disk,
create a DOS partition on the array using fdisk, and then install
Windows NT on the array.
Windows NT Disk Administrator
When creating a new array on a system running under Windows
NT, the array is not listed as "usable" in the NT Disk Administrator
until it is initialized. This is normal Windows NT functionality.
Installing the Software Driver for Windows NT
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