Install NT 4.0 on 20 gb or more hardisk
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Name: jitul gogoi
Date: August 17, 2000 at 21:47:04 Pacific
Subject: Install NT 4.0 on 20 gb or more hardisk
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Comment: i have bought one 20 gb segate harddisk and wanted to install NT 4.0. what i did
(i) boot with windows 98 bootdisk ,disable with large disk support and make partition with largest possible primary partition (fat16)
(ii) reboot and install NT on that partition
(iii) i format using fat
(iv) i boot it and NT is working
(v) again boot with 98 disk . use fdisk to create extended partition with enable large disk support
(vi) again boot NT and i use disk administrator
(vii) delete large unknown partition
(viii) i wnated to create three partition 6gb each but i unable to create ...
only one 6GB partition and rest are 12 gb i have created. i have assigen one drive letter as d and another is e.
format using ntfs.
(ix) after that i unable to boot nt . it start booting and after that one stop error occurs INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE
please help me out ..
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Name: Andrew
Date: August 18, 2000 at 05:56:46 Pacific
Subject: Install NT 4.0 on 20 gb or more hardisk |
Reply: (edit)Well I don't know how to solve your present problem but I do know how to avoid it happening again. Throw away that 98 boot disk for one. The NT setup disks contain a disk formatting utility and I have run into several problems when trying to use fdisk, always use the NT disks to format. Also, you need at least service pack 3 for NT to regognize a drive larger than 8GB, so you may have created a incompatable partition (also, the NT boot partition cannot exceed 4GB!). When you loaded NT you should have then used Disk Administrator to make any further changes to your drive. Partitioning commonly causes drive problems but if you use Disk Administrator you can use the Last Known Good Config utility in the NT start-up to undo any mistakes. Good Luck!
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Name: reverend tbone
Date: August 19, 2000 at 08:57:19 Pacific
Subject: Install NT 4.0 on 20 gb or more hardisk
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Reply: (edit)adding drive letters changes the location of the partition. modify boot.ini and change the values partition (0) partition(1) etc.
until you find your OS. I agree with the above. throw away the win98 disk. win98 fdisk, format, sys.com etc. I use plain jane dos. then within NT diskAdmin. convert to NTFS or make partitions. Again adding drive letters will require you to change boot.ini
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