Microsoft KB Archive/130418

= Write Caching on Boot Floppy Drive Causes WINNT.EXE to Fail =

Article ID: 130418

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.5
 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5

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This article was previously published under Q130418



SYMPTOMS
If you run WINNT.EXE and SMARTDrive (SMARTDRV.EXE) is loaded to cache reads and writes to drive A, and you follow the Setup prompts, the first floppy disk is removed before MS-DOS has finished writing to the floppy disk. This results in various problems and the wrong files being written to the setup disks.



CAUSE
The cached data is not flushed to the floppy disk before you are prompted to change floppy disks.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 3.5. This problem was corrected in Windows NT version 3.51.

Additional query words: prodnt 3.51

Keywords: KB130418

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