Hi We get our computers delivered to us with Windows 2000 installed on a 9GB FAT32 partition... But now I want to install Windows 4.0 Workstation on this computer so I then can make a ghost-image... We donīt have the original CD... Only a copy that we canīt boot from. So I have to copy the I386-directory to C: How do I install NT on this computers?? You canīt make a FAT16 partition that is 9GB big.... You canīt make a FAT32 partition because NT 4.0 donīt recognize it.... You canīt create a NTFS partition from DOS... Please help me!! Thanx //Anders

Firstly you realy need to get an NT disk, this will make it all much easier. Its gonna be a lot less hassle than what you are considering. You could install NT on a FAT partition but its not really a good idea, FAT is not very good with large drives, it has a maximum size of 2048mb also the main feature of NT,security, will not work. Forget Fat 32...its a no no...so its gotta be NTFS...I think HPFS was used by NT 3.51. Like I said you really gotta get that NT disk. Have fun B

If you can't get the NT boot disks, you can use a program called PQ Magic to remove the FAT32 and then create some partitions. You can make the first partition a small FAT partition so that DOS can access it if you need that. Then create two four Gig partitions. One you can make NTFS for Workstation and you can leave the other to format later if you need it for something. To create those NT boot disks though, you just need a system that is running NT workstation and create the boot disks from that computer then use them to install NT on your system.

micronpc.com and many other sites have NT boot disks for download. search engines are your friend. :)

Unless you have a compelling reason to keep that FAT32 partition, you can also convert it to NTFS. Go to a command prompt and type: convert c: /fs:ntfs It'll do the conversion upon reboot. Just be aware that if you do this, you can't convert back to FAT or FAT32 without reloading the entire system from scratch. FYI, there is also a utility from SYSINTERNALS called FAT32 for Windows NT that will let you view FAT32 partitions from NT4, but that's probably not what you need in this case, since you're wanting to create a ghost image. That would be more for if you wanted to run a dual boot between 2000 and NT4 running on separate partitions and you wanted to see the FAT32 partition from NT4. The options mentioned by the others should also work. Good luck! Natalie : )

P.S. It also occurs to me that a Win98 (preferably SE) boot disk should let you see that large FAT32 partition and run the setup from the C: drive. But I'm not sure what the NT4 installer will do, since Win2K is essentially NT5 and installing an earlier version of ANY software after the later one has already been installed is typically either problematic or else completely not allowed. Don't forget that it doesn't really matter what size the source ghost image is. When you ghost it back down to the target machine, you can specify the boot partition to be whatever size you want (assuming you're using Ghost 5.x or above), so long as it's not smaller than the size of the uncompressed image. Just be aware that when you're ghosting down an NT4 image, the maximum size you can specify for the boot partition is 7.8 GB (That's actually an NT4 limitation due to the fact the NT4 initially formats itself with FAT during the setup, even when you specify NTFS). If you really need a 9GB image to ghost down, you'll need to pick up that copy of PQ Magic. Good luck (again) Natalie :)