Re: nt 40 install failure

Mark ( inetmail@fiber-net.com )
Fri, 17 Jul 1998 18:00:14 -0400

did that too. i went back to nt 3.51 and it started loading. but 4.0 gives
me that dang message. won't find msdos partition.

mark

At 09:38 AM 7/17/98 -0400, you wrote:
>> From: Mark <inetmail@fiber-net.com>
>> not that i know of. fdisk with msdos 6.20 system disk.
>> i will double check tho.
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>Have you tried letting the NT boot disks handle the partitioning/formatting
>of the drive(s)??
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>Josh Hillman
>hillman@talstar.com
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>> At 10:38 AM 7/17/98 +1000, you wrote:
>> >You wouldn't happen to have answered "Yes" to Fdisk to use Fat32?
>> >
>> >NT needs your boot patition to be Fat16 or NTFS formatted
>> >
>> >As far as I know anyway, unless someone knows different :)
>> >
>> >Ray
>> >
>> >At 07:33 PM 16-07-98 -0400, Mark DeWar wrote:
>> >>I am trying to install nt40 on a new machine. but everytime it gets
>ready to
>> >>install it says can't find the ms-dos partion made to install nt.
>> >>So i fdisked and formatted. did no good. just fdisked it. no good.
>> >>what does this error mean and how do i continue on.
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