Windows NT 3.51 IDE drivers

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Hejmus - 16 Apr 2006 22:25 GMT

I have old Windows NT 3.51 Server and I want install it on my Intel RC440BX
motherboard, but setup doesn't detect my IDE controller - it detect only
CDROM. Does anyone have drivers for this?

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Calvin - 17 Apr 2006 04:54 GMT

Hi Hejmus,

> I have old Windows NT 3.51 Server and I want install it on my Intel RC440BX
> motherboard, but setup doesn't detect my IDE controller - it detect only
> CDROM. Does anyone have drivers for this?

More detail needed please - how is the CDROM connected to the system ?? What
size / type of Hard Disk Drive ?

I presume from the motherboard description that the chipset is Intel 440BX -
this should not present any problems being used on NT3.51 (been there - done
that :-) )

Calvin.

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Hejmus - 17 Apr 2006 10:19 GMT

HDD and CDROM are connecteed tu seperate IDE channeles - HDD to Primary,
CDROM to secondary. HDD is normal 40GB ATA.

My partitions:
16mb - XOSL bootloader
128mb - FAT16, DOS, only for setup temp files
1300mb - free space
37gb - FAT32, win98

> Hi Hejmus,
>
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>
> Calvin.

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Calvin - 18 Apr 2006 02:43 GMT

> HDD and CDROM are connecteed tu seperate IDE channeles - HDD to Primary,
> CDROM to secondary. HDD is normal 40GB ATA.

OK - IDE hardware of this type should not cause a problem. The normal rules
regarding partition sizes and file systems still apply equally to NT3.51 as they
do for NT4.0 - see http://nt4ref.zcm.com.au/bigdisk.htm for a complete explanation.

> My partitions:
> 16mb - XOSL bootloader
> 128mb - FAT16, DOS, only for setup temp files
> 1300mb - free space
> 37gb - FAT32, win98

Should be fine - I presume the order listed is the order they appear in on the
HDD ? The 37GB partition formatted in FAT32 will not be accessible within NT -
it does not understand FAT32. On a NT4 system you can add drivers to make FAT32
a mountable and usable file system - I don't know whether this would work with
NT3.51

Hope this helps,

Calvin.

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Hejmus - 17 Apr 2006 16:19 GMT

Damn, I look in wrong manual :/ I have Intel 810 chipset ! Not 440BX

> Hi Hejmus,
>
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>
> Calvin.

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Calvin - 18 Apr 2006 02:44 GMT

> Damn, I look in wrong manual :/ I have Intel 810 chipset ! Not 440BX

i810 should still be OK - you can certainly use it with NT4 :-)

Calvin.

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