I was trying to install NT 4.0 into one large partition. But it prompted 'The partition is too large', so I can't format it into NTFS. I have to divde 7G into 2 partitions. That would give me no problem. Is there anyway that I can install NT into one 7G partition? Another problem I have is, after I formatted the whole hard drive. Everytime I reboot the computer, it has a message say it could not find bootmagic. Either I reinstall it again or press 'enter' to boot the active partition. I did not install it myself. I believe it was the last owner. Is there anyway that I can remove boot magic? Thank you.

Bootmagic is a boot manager that is part of partion magic. This must have been installed at some time and writes information to your Master Boot Record. Uninstalling does not seem to remove it correctly. If you have an emergency repair disk form your NT installation you can repair it, however if not it is a clean install. The best way to get around the 2GB problem is to use a partition magic boot disk and format the disk NTFS in advance. Then you can install straight onto it.

I would make a real small partition (< 100 MB) to use a C: drive with windows NT. Then, when it asks for a destination directory during install, give it the d:\Winnt as the option, then it will install onto the large unused space (Most of the 7 GB partition minus the 100 MB). I just did that successfully herre when I had the same problem with a 4 GB partition.

Heres a couple of options to install NT onto a larger partition than 4GB. 1. Format the HD to NTFS on another NT box, just slave the drive and format it as NTFS. put it back on your box and run the install, it being already NTFS will not have the 4GB limit which actually belongs to the FAT. What happens is, when your installing NT on a box, even when you select NTFS directly, it creates a FAT Partition with the 4GB limit, and then converts it to NTFS. NTFS4 actually has a 7.8GB limit. 2. Install your NT onto the drive with the 4GB limit (or lower) then image it with Symantecs GHOST (or something similiar). Create a boot floppy with the GHOST on there and boot off the floppy, run GHOST and put the image back on the drive with the larger partition, since it is directly NTFS when it does the image, it will work fine (this I do lots) Best of luck

Just as a little foot note to James's answer. NTFS has a theoretical size limit of 16 exabytes (16 million gigabytes!). Although it is recomended you dont go beyond 2 terabytes. Just a bit of triva.

And "hedgehogs often die from diptheria..." is just another bit of trivia...

Shirley I had the same problem when I decided to format my hard drive and reinstall WinNt what I found was Atapi that comes with service pack 4 or you can download it from ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-unsup-ed/fixes/nt40/atapi/ATAPI.EXE