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Q122159: Err Msg: Setup Is Unable to Identify Your Hard Drive’s…

Article: Q122159
Product(s): Microsoft Disk Operating System
Version(s): MS-DOS:6.22
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): 
Last Modified: 22-NOV-1999

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft MS-DOS operating system version 6.22 
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SYMPTOMS
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The following error is displayed when you run Setup on a system with a SCSI
device that is not a hard disk drive and is set to ID 0 or ID 1:

  Setup is unable to identify your hard drive's startup partition.

CAUSE
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SCSI ID 0 and ID 1 are reserved for SCSI hard disks. Setup treats devices
mounted as SCSI ID 1 or ID 0 as hard disk devices. The device given ID 0 or ID 1
does not respond as appropriate, generating the above error message.

RESOLUTION
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To work around this problem, reconfigure the device to ID 2 or higher and then
rerun Setup.

Additional query words: 6.22 err msg

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Keywords          :  
Technology        : kbMSDOSSearch kbMSDOS622
Version           : MS-DOS:6.22

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