NT4 workstation install questions.

[Zeeliv]

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.

 

[dirtboy]

NT can't recognize FAT32. Try deleting all the partitions off the drives first.

 

[Zeeliv]

Read my post again man, these are unpartitioned and unformatted.

 

[pcmark]

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.

 

[zetter]

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.

 

[zetter]

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

 

[SUOrangeman]

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