Installing NT with a large had drive? Help please?

[DPK]

Ok, here is my problem. I have a 40 gig hard drive and I need to install Windows NT onto it. Win 2000 is not an option. Don't ask me why, I'm just a student with no decision making status.

The person wants all partitions to be NTFS. Now, The most I can make the drive during the NT Setup process is about 8GBs. I would like to partition dirve c with 20 gigs and drive d with 20 gigs. Can I do that with NT 4.0? If not, will someone please tell me what they would do with a 40 gig harddrive and Windows NT.

Thanks.

 

[Ladi]

Installing Windows NT on a Large IDE Harddisk

How do I install on a disk larger than 8GB?

~Ladi

 

[NT4Mike]

You will not be able to make your system partition larger than 8GB. That is a limitation of NTFS4 and NT4.

I would recommend setting up a 4GB partition to handle your OS and applications and then partition the remaining 36GB into one or more data partitions.

-Mike

 

[Shuja]

It is true that WIN NT do not support HDD more than 8GB and it is not possible for you access more than 8 GB HDD, though NTFS can access 2EB of HDD. For accessing you 40 GB HDD use partition magic or if you have not installed NT yet, Prepare your HDD using Disk Manager of the HDD manufactures.

 

[Ladi]

Read the linked articles in my first post. It is perfectly possible for NT setup to detect, partition, and format large disks and partitions by using Service Pack 4 atapi.sys drivers. Partition magic is not necessary, nor is limiting yourself to 4 or 8.5 GB partitions.

I've done it myself many times...

~Ladi

 

[Shuja]

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