The max supported partition size for a boot device on NT4 is 4Gb, that's a hard limit imposed in the code of NT itself !!! Also, if using IDE you do need the updated ATAPI.DLL if your drive (not partition!) is over 8Gb -----Original Message----- From: Timothy Mangan [mailto:tmangan@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 12 May 2004 17:35 To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: Legacy Help I seem to remember having to use a FAT partition of no more than 1024MB for the root drive for success. Secondary partitions could be NFS of any size. Tim _____ From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jennifer Hooper Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 11:51 AM To: 'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [windows2000] Re: Legacy Help Eh, that didn't work either. Tells me it can't access the partition. Should I try to create a FAT partition via FDISK first? Thanks, Jen _____ From: Jennifer Hooper [mailto:jennifer.hooper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 7:53 AM To: 'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [windows2000] Re: Legacy Help Yeah, I am. And I think the boot file situation will work. I have a set I made for the same server, when I was trying to boot the dead SCSI drives. So let me give that a shot. I think that will help.... one or both of these. Funny... I asked around my senior people what they thought I could do, uh... gee... you can't do nothin, install 2000. (Siebel 6.5 doesn't support Windows 2000) Thanks guys!!! Jen _____ From: Mark Cook [mailto:mc@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 5:57 AM To: 'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [windows2000] Re: Legacy Help You could also, replace the ATAPI.SYS file on the CD - obviously make a copy of the CD to your hard drive, replace the file and then re-cut a bootable NT4 install CD... We had this issue years ago when Dell started shipping 10Gb IDE drives in their servers ! I am assuming you are talking about IDE drives at a size of 20Gb ???? -----Original Message----- From: Robert K Coffman Jr - Info From Data Corporation [mailto:bcoffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 12 May 2004 13:57 To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: Legacy Help Jennifer, I think you can accomplish this by building the boot floppies, then replacing the ATAPI.SYS file with the newer one. I think I had to do this many moons ago... - Bob Coffman -----Original Message----- From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jennifer Hooper Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 6:30 PM To: 'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [windows2000] Legacy Help I know this is a 2k list, but a lot of us out there still must use NT4. I need to know if there is some way that I can slipstream in an SP4 cd into an NT4 Server installation CD. Here's why: (and if you can help me out here too, bonus points) I have to rebuild a generic black box server with NT4 on it to support Siebel. I finally got 2 20G Western Digital drives installed in it, and they are recognized. But when I try to install NT4, they come up as 7.8G drives. A KB article I found says that SP4 has an updated Atapi.sys that will allow formatting of large hard drives. And I *reallllly* need these larger drives. So if anyone can help me out, you'll get a virtual beer. Thanks much, Jennifer Jennifer Hooper Peregrine Systems, Inc. Sr. Network Engineer mailto:jennifer.hooper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx