Computer Problems? Computing.Net has over 1,000,000 posts about all things technology related! Over 90% answered within 24 hours! Click here to start participating now! Also, be sure to check out the New User Guide.
Cylinder Problem
Name: Chaim Bochner Date: September 22, 2003 at 09:27:20 Pacific OS: Windows NT CPU/Ram: Pentium 3 450mhz
Comment:
Hi,
I'm new to this forum so please have patience with me.
I ran fdisk on my PC and partitioned the entire disk to a primary DOS partition. I then formatted my C drive.
When Installing NT I get an error message saying that my Hard disk is more than 1024 cylinders and will not install.
Name: Craven Moorehead Date: September 22, 2003 at 11:42:52 Pacific
Reply:
Your system partition (C drive) cannot be more then 4 gigs for FAT16 or 7.8 gigs for NTFS with the NT4 opertating system.
0
Response Number 2
Name: wanderer Date: September 22, 2003 at 18:58:35 Pacific
Reply:
The 1024 cylinder message means NT detected drive params different then expected. This is normal with todays drives and partitioning schemes.
2gig is the limit of FAT16. NT is able to double that addressable space by using the VFAT driver to get to 4gig. 4gig is the max out of the box NT can install to. There are ways around this limitation.
It is true that you would not want to exceed 7.8 gig for SYSTEM and BOOT partitions due to a ntfs bios boot limit bug.
You can get around this limitation by making a small fat16 partition and use the rest of the drive for the boot partition by using another NT machine for preformat NTFS. In MS speak boot is where winnt folder resides and system is where the boot files like boot.ini and ntldr reside.
Summary: when installing nt 4.0 on 13Gb drive, i recieve message about 1024 cylinders boundary, and installation failure. how can i solve this problem?...
Summary: Trvlr, Thanks for your expert advice. I am aware of the FAT issues and partition size requirements. I had to know since I am setting up a multiboot machine. My primary is FAT16. I ran the makeboot di...
Summary: I have a Duron 1G with 256 MB RAM, 60G hard disk. I have Partition Magic and I'm running System Commander for dual booting stuff. I'm trying to run DOS 6.22, Windows 98 SE, Windows NT Workstation 4.0 ...
0 
logon script
