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NT 4 Wont Format my 20gig Drive????
Name: Chris Date: April 28, 2003 at 09:13:21 Pacific OS: NT4 CPU/Ram: 933/256
Comment:
Ok here my problem. Ive got a 20 gig HD that im trying to put NT 4 on it. I want to split the drive 5 and 15 and have them be NTFS. Well i split the drive and go to format them before i install, and it says that my drive is to big to format. ??? I tryed it with FAT as well but still the same error.
Name: wanderer Date: April 28, 2003 at 14:05:50 Pacific
Reply:
NT, out of the box, will only install to 4gig max. You can install to larger but there are tricks. See here http://www.windows2000faq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=13922
You can do the atapi.sys method but the draw backs are that you have a fragmented MFT for NTFS. You also can not exceed 7.8gig for boot/system since there is a ntfs/bios boot bug that can render your system nonbooting. The link above solves that issue.
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