Installing Windows NT 3.51 on ThinkPad
Hi! Long time lurker, first time poster. I've installed NT 3.51 on VMs a number of times without issue. I'm now trying to install it on a ThinkPad 380ED laptop. IBM listed some NT 3.51 drivers for it, so I do believe it was supported. However, when I try to install, it fails. When booting with the floppy disk set, it gets to the first setup screen and immediately freezes the system. I've tried writing the floppy images to multiple disks; it seems to be an actual error in NT.
I've also tried to format the C: drive as FAT16, copy the NT 3.51 files over, and then run setup with the /B option to install it without the floppies. It gets through the initial setup and asks to reboot. When I reboot the system, it blue screens with an INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error. This happens whether I set the drive to remain FAT16 or convert to NTFS. I also tried different partition sizes - 500 MB, 1 GB, and the full 2 GB drive size. All fail in the same way.
Any ideas how to fix this would be very much appreciated. Thanks!
I've also tried to format the C: drive as FAT16, copy the NT 3.51 files over, and then run setup with the /B option to install it without the floppies. It gets through the initial setup and asks to reboot. When I reboot the system, it blue screens with an INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error. This happens whether I set the drive to remain FAT16 or convert to NTFS. I also tried different partition sizes - 500 MB, 1 GB, and the full 2 GB drive size. All fail in the same way.
Any ideas how to fix this would be very much appreciated. Thanks!