The ideal way to overcome your problem, and have a rock solid NT setup, is
as follows.

Install NT in another smaller hard  drive, install SP4. Add your big drive
after NT is running in the small drive. Partition the 10 gig drive from
within NT's Disk Administrator, format the drive. Remove small drive and
then install NT in the 10 gig drive and when prompted choose to leave
existing file format or whatever. This will give you a true NTFS file system
and NT will see the whole drive.

The ideal would be a system partition big enough to setup a permanent Page
File of twice your RAM plus 16 megs, format this partition with 4K clusters.
Another partition for programs also with 4K clusters. One or more partitions
to store data, these you can format with smaller clusters if you like. If
something should go wrong, all you have to is re-install on the system
partition and your data will be intact. The programs you'll have to install
again since they always write a little bit on the C drive.

The permanent Page File should be contiguous. The only way to achieve this
is to set a permanent Page File on the D partition and then defrag the C
partition till there's enough room for the Page File to be contiguous.

HTH,

Jose



Jun Qian wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I spent 4 hours to try to setup NT4 workstation on a 10.2G HDD (IDE).
> The mobo I use is a Aopen (has a logo - designed for Windows NT).
>
> The first problem is: at set up, NT cannot see the correct HDD size, it
> only see the unpartitioned HDD in 8G. However, in BIOS, the HDD showed
> in right size, and I tried win98 on it without any problem. Who can I
> overcome the 8G limit (I will partition the HDD into 2G, 4G, 4G, all in
> NTFS, but I need to see the whole HDD first)?
>
> The second problem may related to HDD, but here it is: I tried to
> install NT first then see if I can see the correct HDD size within NT,
> so I created a 2G NTFS partition on the 10.2G HDD (show at setup only
> 8G), after NT restart computer and convert FAT16 into NTFS, at the fist
> login screen, after I type in password and hit enter, the comuter locked
> up (blue screen, no actives at all). Hit reset button returned a full
> screen of NT crash info. What was the problem???
>
> Extra question: I have a client who installed NT4 with Viper550 AGP
> video himself. then he found out that 3DMAX won't run because problem
> related to OpenGL. He's using NT service pack4, and latest driver for
> video card. Everything apeared to be ok, exept the OpenGL part (even the
> OpenGL screen saver wouldn't run for same error). As I understand, NT
> included OpenGL, and Viper550 supports full OpenGL, why OpenGL wouldn't
> work? Now he changed to win98 but I want to know what was the problem?
>
> TIA
>
> J Qian

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