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NT4 workstation install questions.

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Zeeliv

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Ok I'm new to NT and I'm putting it on a system with a 13GB and a 6.4GB hard drive (both unpartitioned and unformatted). I have them manually setup in the bios so it has the right size there, but when I get into the part of the setup program where you partition and format what you want it only sees the 13 as an 8GB and the 6.4 as a 4GB. Is there something I'm missing?

I want to install NT onto a 2GB or so partition and then divide the rest up into 2-3GB partitions (all NTFS) once I have the boot partition setup. Not sure how to do that exactly as I'm used to just formatting everything as fat32 on 1 partition and then popping Win98 on. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks.
 
Nt didn't have large disk support until Service pack 3 or4. You won't be able to see the whole drive until you install the SP. Just make your 2 gig Fat partition and install. You can make the other partitions with Disk Administrator in NT.
 
Just set up the first partition and install NT on to it, then once you're up and running, use the Disk Administrator within NT to set up your other partitions.
 
Oops, forgot to add that the large disk stuff was Service Pack 4.

The following Microsoft KB article may also be of use:

ARTICLE -ID: Q114841
TITLE : Windows NT Boot Process and Hard Disk Constraints
 
I just set up a few NT4 systems last night with 4.3GB drives. Because of the 4GB partition install limit, there was a 4GB C: and a 120MB D:. Kinda sucky.

The easiest thing to do is to attach the drives to a system already running NT4 and partition/format them there. That will give you the entire drive as one partition, if you wanted it that way.

I don't know if you can just use PartitionMagic from a DOS floppy to do the same thing. I want think that this is possible (hint, hint, see the bootable CD image that is linked in my profile).

-SUO
 
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