Hi,

When I try to install Win-NT 4.0 on a 1GB FAT partitioned hard drive, I get so far and get the following messege:

“Setup is unable to locate the hard drive partition prepared by the MS-DOS portion of setup.
When you run the MS-DOS Windows-NT Setup program, you must specify a temporary drive that is supported by Windows-NT. See your System Guide for more information.
Setup cannot continue. Press F3 to exit.”

It occurs just after I insert my 3rd floppy and the installation is searching for mass storage devices. According to the message, there ought to be a place in the MS-DOS portion where I can specify a drive, but this is not an option that I can see.

Please help if you can,
Dave

Only thing that matters is that the first partition is fat16 [2gig or less] and is not formatted as fat32.

Are you meeting this criteria?

Thank you for your reply.

I only have (as far as I know anyhow) a Win98 floppy which I have been using to format the HDD with. I do not know if that would provide a fat16 or a fat32 format. What do you think? How do I make sure that I format the HDD with fat16?

Please help if you can,
Dave

Boot with the '98 bootdisk; decline option to use large disk support, and partitions will be limited to 2Gig (and will format as fat16). If you use large disk support then partitions will be fat32 regardless.

This M$ tutorial re' Fdisk/format etc. should help explain further the use of '98 bootdisk options.

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q255/8/67.ASP

Thank you trvlr, that was what it took!
Dave