NT 4.0 -- Hard Drives bigger than 8 Gig??

[kingfinger 0]

Hi Guys,

 

i hope anyone of you can help me

 

How can i use my 14 gig hrd drive under NT4.

 

While setting up my comp nt4 reports an error that my drive is bigger than 8 gig and cancelles installation.

 

what can i do?

 

Btw. what sp should i use ? 4, 5 or 6???

 

 

cu kingfinger

[Llion 0]

You can´t install NT on a partition > 4 GB (by tricking around with boot disks and files of servicepack 4 or above, normally 2 GB), but when it is installed with SP >4, you can use all of your HD.

 

Best way to install is, to make a 2 GB partition (since you won´t be looking for drive letter troubles, also make all the partitions, that you want to use lateron), install it on the 2 Gig partition, install SP6a, and then format / set up all the other partitions.

 

Have fun

 

Llion

[kingfinger 0]

Hi Lilion,

 

thx a lot for your quick help

 

 

cu kingfinger

[euankirkhope 0]

I think what you have done is install NT on a partition over 6.4GB (1024 cylinders) This requires "int13" support from the bios, and Microsoft boot loader, of which the latter is the problem. Just make sure NT is installed before the 6.4gb point, and it will boot.