How can I install NT to reconize the whole 20gig HD?

What we do at our office is put NT on a 2GB drive (as NT cannot detect a drive bigger than 8GB i think it is) and partition the rest out through the disk administration tool in NT after windows is installed. unfortunately it is not possible to use 1 partition that large in NT

Have a read of #3 at: http://www.computing.net/windowsnt/wwwboard/forum/18201.html It explains the various limitations of NT (partitions) and how to get around them to varying degrees. The best you can achieve is 20Gig ntfs (Extended) partition - minus the 250-500Meg (fat16) Primary 'bit'. Quite why you would want a single partition with everyting in it is beyond me. Not a good idea - to have all one's eggs/toys in on one basket/box? At least have two partitions - one for OS/apps., the other for data? And in the model suggested in above post, this would mean a logical-drive for OS/apps, and another for data; and with the smallish fat16 active Primary. And you will need SP4 or later to handle the drive (as it's over 7.8/8Gig physically). More on this item (SP4 etc.) at: http://www.windows2000faq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=13894 courtesy of John Savill's faqs at: http://www.windows2000faq.com - installations section.

I agree w/ trvlr. The way we do it is use a boot floppy (fdisk) to partition the drive, then in the Winnt setup, it will recognize the entire 20GB. I create a 4GB partition for the OS and apps, then partition the rest (16GB) as a data drive. It works well, and I just make sure to go into the user's profile when I'm done w/ everything and actually point their applications to a My Documents folder on the D drive for them because most don't even look at where they are storing what.