I may be wrong, but if my memory serves me, NT needs the first partition.
In the past, when I was messing with NT, I had FAT16 on the first 500mb of
my drive and the remainder FAT32.
I had both Win98se and WinNT 4.0 w/ service paks on the first (boot)
partition a while ago and it worked. Recently, attempts at installing on
2nd or 3rd partitions have resulted with the same results you are seeing.
my .02 dollar's worth.
gary r. tennesen
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Roger Griffiths
Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 6:22 PM
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Subject: [PCBUILD] Install NT with '98 present
Hi,
I have for some time been trying to install Windows NT 4.0 on the same disk
that hosts Windows 98 SE. I have my Seagate 8.4 Gb HDD partitioned as
Primary partition set to approx 5.42 Gb, and an extended partition with two
logical drives, the first being 814 Mb and the second being 823 Mb.
I've tried using both the setup disks (set of three) and booting from CD ROM
to do the installation. Both work fine in terms of carrying out the initial
setup. That is disk two and three are called for in the appropriate time and
order. Then the CDROM is located and drivers installed for it. Then the
option to choose a partititon for NT is offered. I select the appropriate
partiton and allow NT to format it being the last logical drive of 823 Mb.
I've tried both FAT16 and NTFS, both have worked in terms of successfully
formatting the drive. Then I am advised that setup will suspend the other
O/S before continuing. Finally I am asked to remove diskette and CD and
press enter to restart. Having done so the PC starts to boot, gets to
"Verifying DMI pool" and then stops with just a flashing cursor.
I've attempted this on three machines and had the same result. The other
disk drives involved were 20 Gb and a 6.4 Gb, in the case of the 20 Gb and
8.4 Gb HDD's I get warned that the disk exceeds 1024 cylinders prior to
selecting the partition for installation or formatting that partition. The
biggest partiton I have tried to install on is 1.5 Gb.
If anyone can tell me what I'm doing wrong I would really appreciate it. I
know it can be done as I did this last year, but have no idea as to what I
am doing differently. When changing the active partition back to Win98 and
checking the drives in My Computer the partiton exists as does the WINNT
folder that setup creates, but no Boot.ini file is locatable - is this
cretaed before NT setup is complete if so why is it missing?
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