Hello.
Does anyone know how to get the CD-ROM working in Windows NT 3.1 under Virtual PC 2007? I can’t find the drivers of it and don’t know how to install too. Would someone like to share the drivers of this and a guide to make it work too?
The host OS is Windows 7 x64 English.
On the same host OS and configuration, NT 3.5 and NT 3.51 will automatically install the CD-ROM driver and show in the File Manager, but not for NT 3.1, only floppy and hard drive are shown in the File Manager, so I thought the driver has to be install manually. The CD-ROM can be detected when using the bootdisk during the installation, but not for Windows itself. My optical drives in the host OS is SATAII.
Thanks a lot!
Best Regards!
In VirtualPC the client OS has no knowledge of the real hardware (except the CPU). The client sees only the emulated hardware provided by VirtualPC. It will see any CD drive supported by the host as an IDE.
And that is likely the problem. When NT3.1 was released it was expected that most users would be using SCSI CD drives. Support for IDE CD drives were not nearly as good.
You will probably need to obtain a driver. I have no idea where you might find one – if one is available at all. The version of IDE emulated in VirtualPC is more advanced than anything available when NT3.1 was released in 1993.
If you are trying to install then you need. “Setup Disk for CD-ROM Installation.” a floppy or it’s image.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/103939
I am not sure about it but you may have problems getting SATA drive to run in an OS that wasn’t designed to utilize them.
Usually the issue with hardware is just the opposite. You can’t run old hardware on a newer OS due to driver support. So you run in a compatibility mode for an OS that will support the hardware. In this case I don’t think the OS can support SATA devices.
I have no experience with NT 3.1.