Making a larger than 2gb boot partition in NT4

[nightowl]

I was trying to install NT4 las week but I could not make a partition larger than 2gb for the boot partition. I would like to make the drive one partition instead of 2 because it is only a 4gb drive. If I have to I will make 2 partitions but I feel that I will be wasting some space because I will have 2 relatively small partitions rather than 1 larger partition.

 

[owensdj]

nightowl, did you try to create that NT 4 boot partition on your 9GB SCSI drive? I've seen that 2GB partition limitation on SCSI drives during NT 4's install. It happens with some Adaptec SCSI controllers.

There is a simple workaround you can do. Use a Windows 98 or Windows 95 OSR2 boot floppy to create a 4GB FAT32 partition. When you are installing NT 4, you'll be able to delete that FAT32 partition and now be able to create a 4GB partition. Having that partition already on the drive gets around that problem in the NT 4 install program somehow. I think there's a Microsoft Knowledge Base article that explains this problem in more detail, but I can't find it right now.

 

[nightowl]

Actually this is on another computer I have. It is an HP with integrated Adaptec ultra scsi. It has a 4 gb scsi drive in it now and I want to install NT 4 on it. I know there is a work around but I can find/remember it. I think that this was fixed with following service pack releases. I already tried the the fat32 partition conversion (win95 to nt4 and that did not work either.