Actually, at least with SP5/6, you can have a larger partition on the boot
than that (I know because I used to have one). Also, a NT4 CD with SP2 or
less can only create a 2GB partition. The way I did it is to create a 2GB
NTFS partition to install to, update to SP5, and then use Partition Magic
to resize the partition to the size I wanted, which was about 15GB.
Matthew Ballard
Computer Consultant
At 08:52 AM 8/11/2000 +1000, you wrote:
>I could be wrong, but during the NT4 installation, the max partition size is
>4G, regardless you use FAT or NTFS, that's because NT4 needs to create a FAT
>partition first, then if you want NTFS, it convert FAT to NTFS. The only way
>to bypass this 4G limitation is to format the harddisk on another NT machine
>first. Also, NT4 has a limitation on boot partition to 8G, so that if you
>want to use whole 9G as a single partition as boot partition, the answer is
>no.
>
>upgrade to win2k should solve the partition size problem.
>
>Jun Qian
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Roberto Safora" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 12:12 AM
>Subject: [PCBUILD] NT & IDE devices
>
>
> > IŽd like some comments about installing NT4.0 in environments where you
>are
> > mixing IDE cd drives, IDE HDD drives, and scsi HDD drives.
> > When installing NT 4.0 in HDD, e.g. 9.1 GB scsi. Is it posible to
> > partitionate the HDD using the whole size of the disk.
> > Roberto safora
>
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