On Thu, 12 Feb 1998 [log in to unmask] wrote:

>         Hi.
>         I think to remember that a trick was mentioned here on how to
> make an NTFS partition occupy a whole >2 GB disk.
>         Since one way of installing NT is first format to FAT16, and
> later NT will convert the partition to NTFS, it starts with the FAT16
> 2 GB limit.
>         Which was the trick?

I don't know if this is completely true.  I just reloaded NT 4.0 this
last weekend on a 2.5 Gb partition.  First I completely blanked out the
disk (no partitions).  Then I let NT setup go through the whole procedure
of creating it's own partitions.  I did find it a little odd that it
would allow a >2 GB partition with fat 16, nonetheless, it did, and then
converted to NTFS.  It seems to be working fine.


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