1. I don't think that you can create an NTFS partition larger than 4 GB on
a new disk with NT. You can run NTFS partitions that are much larger but
have to work around the installation limitation. One way is to install the
new HD in an already loaded NT machine and format the new disk there and
then moving it into your new machine.
2. I have a Diamond G460 running on NT 4 SP4 using the intel reference
drivers. It works fine. Maybe check the bios settings or look for new
bios for your machine and for the video card. I had to update the video
bios on the G460 to get it to work with award bios.
Ben Moore
-----Original Message-----
From: Jun Qian
Date: Sunday, March 07, 1999 11:43 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Questions
>Hello all,
>
>I have number of questions this time:
>
>1) Can someone tell me what is the limit size of a NTFS partition? I was
>trying to install NT4 on a PII-350 computer with 4.3G HDD, if I don't
>split the HDD into two partitions, NT won't format one large partition
>(it said it's too large), however if i split it into one 3G, one 1G,
>there is no problem at all.
>
>2) On that same NT machine, it has a Intel 740 (8Mb AGP) video card, I
>couldn't get NT to know the card, if i install the driver came with the
>card cd, NT seems succeeded installed it, but nothing changed, the
>display is still only standard VGA, I want to "Display" --> Change Type,
>the i740 card is not there, I then searched the list, still not there. I
>have tried at least 5 time repeat driver installation with no luck. What
>I missed?
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