>>>NT Workstation
>>>Trying to change driver for new hard drive. I went to SCSI adapters under control panel, select the drivers tab and I get a message "Error occured getting driver list from INF file. Err=0".
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>>>Any ideas how to correct this problem outside of reloading NT?
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>>Why would you need to change a driver to add a hard drive? If you're adding a device for an existing controller, you should be able to do this through the Disk Administrator; if you're adding an additional controller, the Devices control panel applet is probably the right place.
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>>>Thanks,
>>>Mike
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>Ed,
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>Thanks for the reply. I've installed a 14 Gig drive but NT will only see 8 Gig. The controller card sees the 14 gig after a bios update, NT still reports 8. Tech support had me download a driver to install but now I get the mentioned error when trying to install the driver. When I tried to run the devices applet I get a message "Not implemented in this version of OS". I'm running NT 4.00.1381
FWIW, when specifying the version of NT you're running, note the latest Service Pack and Hot Fixes installed. All current versions of NT 4.0 report Build 1381; Service pack 1, 2 or 3, HotFixes, and the Option Pack, all adjust the internal files but leave the build number alone. And SP4 is right around the corner, too.
NT doesn't use the BIOS at all; the only thing the BIOS upgrade got for you may have been making more of the drive visisble when NT is -NOT- running. I assume you've gone into Disk Administrator, and no unallocated space is visible on the drive. If this is the case, you're running into an internal driver limit on size in the NT driver in place now, and will have to replace it, and possibly rewrite the partition table for the drive to make the full size of the drive visible to your system.
You need to update the existing driver, not install it fresh. You can either stop the existing driver, remove it, and then add it, in SCSI Adapters/Drivers, or replace the driver file, shut down, and restart the system if the file has the same name and needs no additional resources.
If this is the only controller in the system, you may need to reinstall NT over itself to get the correct driver in place (NT doesn't like having its only disk driver stopped) - this will, in the process of installation, allow you to select the new driver (I assume you have it on floppy, so that it could be read in during install).
Even replacing the driver may not be enough, since NT will use information in the partition table to determine what's available for free space. If this is the case, you'll have to repartition and reformat the drive after the driver is installed; if this is the drive hosting your system or boot partition, you're looking at a complete reinstall of NT, and you'll have to specify the vendor-supplied driver during the initial installation. If this is the case, do your install from the three disk NT Install disk set, so that you can completely delete and reallocate the partition table for the drive during the install before NT takes over.
If you've lost the three disk set, you can recreate it using the /ox command line switch for WINNT or WINNT32.
