RE: NT on drive > 2gig?

Chris Segler ( Chris@msex.pcservicecenter.com )
Mon, 29 Jun 1998 12:22:10 -0500

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Set up a seperate small drive first, then once the system is up format
the new 4+ GB drive using NTFS. Your install should then work...

> ----------
> From: Paul Sheahan
> Sent: Monday, June 29, 1998 11:35 AM
> To: NTMail
> Subject: NT on drive > 2gig?
>
> I have a system at home with the following config:
>
> Primary IDE Controller:
> Disk1: Western Digital 4 gig IDE
> Disk2: 12x Mitsumi CDROM
>
> Secondary IDE Controller:
> Disk3: Maxtor 2gig IDE
> Disk4: Samsung 1 gig IDE
>
> When I try to install NT 4.0 Server, it pops up and tells me it
> couldn't
> find a drive to install on. Is this because my primary drive is 4 gig
> and
> the largest boot drive NT can have is 2 gig?
>
> So next I tried using switches on the WINNT command line to tell it to
> use
> my Maxtor 2 gig to store the temporary files. This seemed to work,
> because
> the NT installation continued and copied all files there. Then it
> asked me
> to reboot to continue with the installation. After rebooting, I found
> that
> the boot record was not changed so the installation never continued!
> Again,
> is this because the boot drive is 4 gig in size?
>
> How do I get around this, break my 4 gig drive up into 2, 2 gig
> partitions?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>

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RE: NT on drive > 2gig?

Set up a seperate =small drive first, then once the system is up format the new 4+ GB =drive using NTFS. Your install should then work...

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