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Installing Windows NT on Apricot AL 700
Posted by Michael Appleby on October 10th, 2004


I have a Mitsubushi Apricot AL 700 and i can get as far as
installing NT form boot and restarting but after it has
restarted it just stops on a screen with a blinking line
like in windows command prompt. i have tried re-installing
windows NT twice with NTFS and FAT but it makes not
difference. Please can someone help me !!!!!!


Posted by Dave Patrick on October 10th, 2004


You didn't mention the drive controller (possibly SCSI, or ultra DMA, or
ATA100, or raid, or serial ATA), but you may need to boot the Windows NT
setup disks or CD-Rom and *F6* very early and very important (at setup is
inspecting your system) in the setup to prevent drive controller detection,
and select S to specify additional drivers. Then later you'll be prompted to
insert the manufacturer supplied Windows NT driver for your drive's
controller in drive "A"

If you wait and then S to specify additional drivers, then it may be too
late as Windows NT Setup at this point may have already assigned the
resources your drive's controller is wanting to use.

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"Michael Appleby" wrote:
|I have a Mitsubushi Apricot AL 700 and i can get as far as
| installing NT form boot and restarting but after it has
| restarted it just stops on a screen with a blinking line
| like in windows command prompt. i have tried re-installing
| windows NT twice with NTFS and FAT but it makes not
| difference. Please can someone help me !!!!!!
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