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First post, by Lars997

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Hello everyone, does anybody now how to Install win NT 4.0 on the Alpha PC, the setup starting, but it doesn't find the hard Drive

Harddisk 4 GB
Ram 128 MB Edo
500 MHz CPU from Alpha (Socket 499)

Reply 1 of 2, by Horun

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Hmm is it like this: got a Highscreen ALPHA 5000
Does the hard driver controller (probably a scsi) see the hard drive ?

Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun

Reply 2 of 2, by davidrg

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What exactly is the machine? There were a bunch of different computers with an Alpha EV5 CPU so it's kind of like saying "windows setup can't find the hard disk on my Pentium 3 computer"

If the computer has AlphaBIOS there is an option in there to partition the hard disk and launch windows setup. It's possible windows may not have a driver for whatever disk controller you're using/is on the motherboard in which case you'll need to find an appropriate driver and supply it to windows when it prompts