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4000 MB limit??

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icqrocks

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How do you get around the 4000 MB limit when installing NT 4.0? I'm sure this is an idiot question , but this would greatly help me out.

TIA
 
your initial drive or partition that you install NT on can only be 4gig's. any other drive or partition from then on can be as big as you want. to really take advantage of nt, make your primary partition 1 gig formated as a fat partiton. if you ever need to you can later get into this drive with dos if you have any errors that you need to fix. the remainder of you drive/s should then be formated into NTFS which is where the security of NT is established. you can then restrict who can and can't access files andperform tasks
dm
 
to learn more about NTFS read the post about the guy who converted his Win2000 machine's drive from fat to NTFS. While you are running different versions of windows the concepts are very much the same
dm
 
If you have access to a working NT 4 machine, format the drive in that machine then use it in your machine.

There's another way, but require overriding the IDE subsystem and forcing it to install the newer subsystem from an NT4 service pack 4 or later. It's done during inital setup where it tell you to press F6 to install additional/other mass storage device. I can't find the exact instruction at the moment. Hopefully someone else remember it soon otherwise, I'll try to update the reponse when I find the correct info.
 
Duh! Thanks, don't know why I didn't think of just sticking it in one of the other machines and formatting. Anyway, thanks again. Still interested in either hearing or being linked to info on the other possible way.

Mike
 

im resonably sure that formatting it on another machine will NOT work, as the IDE driver installed with NT4 still has the limitation. go to MS site and search on the problem, and they tell you what file to copy out of the service pack (4) and put on a floppy and stick in at the appropriate time during the install. if i recall correctly, you're still limited to 8G though (don't hold me to that, its been awhile [thank god]).

i did have a problem with this though, if the drive is already partitioned, it sometimes still wont work. however, if your drive is clean, it should work ok, then once its installed you can apply the service pack and have no more problems.

i cant believe they havent distributed a freakin nt4 cd with the service pack already applied, like SQL server 6.5 cds have its sp3 already applied. it's just plain stupid. 🙁
 
Formatting it on another machine did allow me to partition it as one drive just short of 8 gigs, the drive is only that size, so I still couldn't say on the 8 GB limitation. It's now working great in another machine. Just during the install it asks you if you would like to repartition it as FAT, NTFS, or leave the existing file system, I chose the last option, and for now, it seems fine.🙂
 
multiple options:

- format drive on an existing NT installtion
- follow the guidelines in MS Q article Q197667 (find this on MS' web site)
- third party software like partition magic will do it
 
i installed nt on a smaller drive then drivecopy'd (using that 'drivecopy' program) it to a 20gb drive, with the whole 20gb's availible as drive C:.

remember, your milage may vary.

~erik
 
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