Article: Q101626
Product(s): Microsoft Windows NT
Version(s): 3.1 3.5 3.51 4.0
Operating System(s):
Keyword(s): kbhw kbHardware
Last Modified: 08-AUG-2001
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The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Windows NT Server version 3.1
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 3.1
- Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server, version 3.1
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation versions 3.5, 3.51, 4.0
- Microsoft Windows NT Server versions 3.5, 3.51, 4.0
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Windows NT supports most removable hard disks and magnetic-optical
disk drives. These disks are treated as hard disks because they must
be partitioned and they are assigned a drive letter. However, Windows
NT does not support write-once disk drives.
Windows NT supports removable media subject to the following
restrictions:
- A removable hard disk can have only one primary partition. Extended or
logical partitions are not supported.
- Windows NT supports only the Windows NT filesystem (NTFS) and
MS-DOS-compatible (FAT) file system on removable media.
- The user cannot assign the drive letter for the device.
- Removable disks are not supported in a fault tolerant manner.
- You can install the Windows NT system files (the files contained in the WINNT
directory) on a removable disk. However, the NT boot files, such as NTLDR and
NTDETECT.COM, must be on the hard disk drive (fixed disk).
- If the paging file is located on the device or if the device has the NTFS
installed, the media is locked until the system is shutdown.
- The FAT file system locks the media while it is in use and unlocks it after
approximately 10 seconds of inactivity. NOTE: Windows NT supports a 20.8MB
"floptical" disk as a floppy disk, not as a hard disk. Each write to a floppy
disk is performed on a write-through cache basis and you can remove a floppy
disk as long as the drive light is not on.
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Version : 3.1 3.5 3.51 4.0
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