Mike,

As I recall, that FAT16 partition must occur somewhere within the 1st 1024
cylinders on the drive in order to function properly as a boot drive and
active partition. In short, the FAT16 partition should be in the 1st 2 GIG
of the drive.

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> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 1:49 PM
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> Subject: [PCBUILD] NT INSTALL OF HARDDRIVE
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>
> I am attempting to install NT ver. 4.0 into a hard drive that has
> 13 gigs of
> space on it. I have formated it useing FAT16 and have re
> partitioned it with
> 1.0 gig as an one of the drives. when I put in the third startup
> disk to NT
> it tells me that my hard drive has to many cylinders (over 1024). how do I
> fix this problem? or do I need a new hard drive to run this operating
> system?
>
> thnxz.
>
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