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Free NTFS Partition Utility?

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owensdj

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Is there a free utility available to create and format an NTFS partition? I want to install NT Workstation 4 on a legacy machine with a 6.4GB hard drive and don't want to have to create 2 partitions because of the 4GB partition limitation in the NT 4 install. Thanks.
 
NTFS is proprietary. No soup for you.

I thought the 4GB limitation for NT4 was a limitation of NTFS4 (which is to say that formatting it with NTFS5 from Win2k or XP or 2k3 would make it unreadable to NT4)?
 
There are free NTFS5 utilities out there, but I don't think that there are too many that still support the old kind. Last time I checked, there is only a restriction like that for the early NT4. Get the latest service pack version, then try to install.
 
Ryoga, the 4GB limitation is all in the NT 4 install program. For some reason, Microsoft decided to have the NT 4 install create NTFS partitions as FAT16 and then convert them to NTFS later. Since FAT16 is limted to 4GB partitions, you can't create NTFS partitions bigger than 4GB during the NT 4 install.
 
Unless you script it, in which case you can go all the way up to the boot partition limit of 7.6 - 7.8GB.
 
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