When I tried to install NT4 on my Celeron 450mhz system, it kept saying
that my C:\ was not formatted or corrupt. I couldn't continue at that
point. Did a  disk check, and no problems were found. C:\ is my primary
partition (2GB, FAT16) with Win98SE on it. I suspect that the partition was
created with PartitionMagic 4 (it's been a while) and somehow the FAT16
created was different from regular FAT16 since it showed up as FAT16B in
PartitionMagic. After searching the dejanews, I think I need to create a
partition that does not support large drive. The drive is a 14GB IBM drive,
how do I format it so it will just have the first partition as 2GB FAT16
and the rest in 3 partitions that are FAT32 (each will be larger than 2GB).
I kind of remember that I chose support for larger disk when I formatted
it, and I suspect that caused the problem C:\ being not recognized by NT4...

Any suggestions to make it work with NT4 with minimum effort (hopefully no
reformat of the whole drive is needed)?


Thanks,


Changhsu Liu
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