Microsoft Windows NT, Beta October 1992
"Please Insert Disk #6" error in text Setup on floppy installation


The Microsoft Windows NT product group has recently identified a floppy disk 
setup problem with the October Beta release of Windows NT.  On certain 
systems, an error may occur during installation.  When the message "Please 
Insert Disk #6" appears, and Disk #6 is inserted and the error continues 
to recur, the installation of Windows NT is prevented.  If you attempt   
floppy disk installation, you may experience this problem. 

The behavior occurs due to a problem identified in the floppy driver provided 
in the Beta release and FLOPPY.SYS was not attempting to retry the operation 
in the presence of this error.  If the error occurs, you will be unable to  
complete installation from floppy disk which may leave your system in an 
inconsistent state.  Quit the Setup program and boot from an MS-DOS floppy 
boot disk.  The system may require that you run the MS-DOS SYS utility on 
the hard drive to recover your environment.  Follow the instructions below
before attempting to reinstall Windows NT again from floppy disk.  

If you encounter this problem, please take the following steps to replace 
the driver as instructed.  We appreciate our customers efforts in 
reporting problem areas and encourage you to continue working with us to 
improve the product.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may have  
caused. 

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To retrieve the corrected files from the WINNT CompuServe forum:

    Connect to the WINNT CompuServe forum, Library 2 where you will find 
    WNT004.ZIP.  This file was created using the PKZIP file compression 
    utility.  You will need the PKUNZIP utility to extract the files to
    a directory on your hard drive.  PKUNZIP can be found as PKZ110.EXE 
    in Library 2 of the IBMCOM forum.  Download PKZ110.EXE and execute 
    the file to extract the PKUNZIP.EXE utility.  Create a directory on
    your hard disk where the extracted files can be placed.  For example, 
    C:\WNT004.  To extract the WNT004.ZIP file, type: 
	PKUNZIP WNT004.ZIP C:\WNT004
    to decompress the files into the directory.  The following files can 
    now be seen:

	FLOPPY.SY$
	README.TXT


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To apply the affected driver:

If you utilize a system with only one 3.5" floppy disk drive, take the 
following steps unless you have a double floppy drive system. 

1.      Insert the floppy disk into the floppy disk drive containing the 
updated version of FLOPPY.SY$.  

2.      Using the File Manager or copy command, copy FLOPPY.SY$ located 
on the patch diskette to a location on your hard disk.  For example, File, 
Copy, To: C:\.

3.      Remove the patch diskette and insert Disk #6 of the Windows NT 
floppy disk install set into the disk drive. 

4.      Using the File Manager, locate FLOPPY.SY$ on the hard drive and copy 
directly to the root of Disk #6 replacing the failing driver.  For example, 
File, Copy, To: A:

5.      You may now attempt to reinstall Windows NT from floppy disk.