Hi, Is there a way to create a system partition greater than 7.8 GB? Is this advisable? Current Setup: NT 4 Server IBM Netfinity 3500 M20 Server Promise FastTrak100 RAID controller 2 30GB HDD attached to RAID Regards, William Ho

Yes, it's possible, but not very easy. You either need a 3rd party partitioning/format utility or a working NT system to create the partitions on the new drives. THen you need to install NT into that existing partition while making sure you are using the latest atapi.sys or other controller driver so that NT will recognize that partition size. As for advisable.... you may notice that performance will suffer on large system partitions once that partition has a sizeable percentage of it filled. My general suggestion for installs is make the system partition as small as you can stand, then utilize the rest of the drive area for a large ntfs partition for installing all programs and storing data. The NT pagefile will remain on the system drive and performance will not be adversly affected by filling the data partition.

U can also create a small C: FAT16 partition (via a DOS/'9x boot-disk); make it bootable to DOS (initially); make it around 250Meg; install NT there (as FAT16); then via Disk Admin. create the Extended partition and format as NTFS. Install a second NT into the Extended NTFS partition. Delete or retain the initial NT installation as you prefer; personally I'd keep it... allows recovery options in the future... Usually having a single partition for any OS/applications 'and' data is not adviseable (need to reformat/re-install OS/applications, and your data is seriously at risk...). Also having a large boot-partition (where the OS/system files reside) is not really a good idea; with NT usually around 4Gig max is more than adequate. Have a larger area for data is better, and this too sub-divided... In other words have a separate data area - apart from the area where the OS itself resides. If you copy the i386 to the C: partition you can install NT from there. C:\i386\winnt /b /x /s:\c:i386 is the command line. /b = floppy-less install; /x = make no set-up floppies; /s: = location of winnt.exe; (in this case /s: = c:\i386 You will also need to address the issue of your HD being over 7.8Gig; http://www.windows2000faq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=13894 from John Savill's FAQ's at: http://www.windows2000faq.com covers that for you.