Article ID: 101626
Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.1
- Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.5
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.51
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q101626
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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