[win2kforum] Re: Off Topic NT 4.0
- From: "L.W. Kramer" <lwkramer@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: win2kforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 10:57:30 -0700
Pick one or the other of PM or nt disk mgr -don't mix tools.
nt4 will get along just fine on volumes set up with pm 5 or 6 -
follow the partition size and location rules.
(part of the problem is that the setup version of disk manager is pretty
old, even on later version of nt cdroms - this stuff was written a long
time ago, relatively speaking).
You CAN set up a fat and then an extended ptn of all available space and
then a < 4g ptn and install comfortably. AFTER you install service packs
(which fix windisk), you can use partitions larger than 4g for data volumes
(remembering that the system loader will still be confused by a boot ptns >
4g). use pm to set these up in the extended partition. My "standard" nt on
ide partition structure goes pretty much like this and works reliably.
attached is a windisk screen shot of a 20G drive set up as described here,
running nt4 sp6a.
L.
>Thanks,
>
>So in summary the CD will require a 4 GB partition and as long as it is the
>first 7.8 GB of the disk everything is fine. But if I wanted I could take
>Partition Magic after the install and increase the 4 GB partition to no more
>than 7.8 BG.
>
>Thank You
>Sean Faust
>Network Administrator
>American Red Cross - Atlanta Chapter
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>Cell 404-909-0778
>Visit our website!
>
>www.redcross.org/atlanta
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Faulkingham, Shawn [mailto:SFaulkingham@xxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 12:40 PM
>To: win2kforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [win2kforum] Re: Off Topic NT 4.0
>
>
>
>Sean -
>
>It was explained to me this way...Lets say you had a 12gig drive. You made
>1-8gig and 1-4gig partition. You stuck in your cd, installed NT4 on the 2nd
>partition, The 4gigger and whola! NT will not boot. All NT system files have
>to reside on the first 7.8gigs of the drive or it will not work. Some OEM
>(Compaq) allow you to make a 7.8 gig boot partition. Unfortunately, some
>sort of Microsoftism.
>
>Shawn Faulkingham - CCNA
>Network Administrator Sr./Analyst/Programmer
>Indoff Incorporated
>sfaulkingham@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> -----Original Message-----
>From: Sean Faust [mailto:SFaust@xxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 7:46 AM
>To: win2kforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [win2kforum] Off Topic NT 4.0
>
>
>Good Morning Everyone,
>
>Sorry to bring this up but I thought that NT was limited to a 4GB
>system/boot partition. Q224525 and Q114841 state that the boot partition
>must be entirely within the first 7.8 GB of the drive. Whenever I install
>NT 4.0 I am clearly limited to 4 GB. Did I miss something over the
>years????
>
>Thank You
>Sean Faust
>Network Administrator
>American Red Cross - Atlanta Chapter
>Office 404-575-3123
>Cell 404-909-0778
>Visit our website!
>
>www.redcross.org/atlanta
>
>
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