[553] in winnt
Re: WNT 4.0: how to install on 4 Gbytes? (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Kaynor)
Thu Sep 28 12:12:47 2000
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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 12:12:39 -0400
To: "David S. Woodruff" <dsw@mitlns.mit.edu>
From: Bob Kaynor <bkaynor@MIT.EDU>
Cc: NT Partners at MIT <ntpartners@mit.edu>
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Got a DOS (or Win95) boot disk with FDISK on it? That might allow you to
delete all partitions which would then clear the way for NT. On the other
hand, you might be able to do the same with a Win2000 installation CD.
-RKK
At 12:00 PM 09/28/2000 -0400, David S. Woodruff wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I had purchased a PC with Windows 98 installed and a 4 Gbyte disk.
>
>I am going to install MIT WNT 4.0 on it, and I'd like NT to use the whole
>4 Gbytes for the C: drive. I formatted the drive using a Windows 98
>startup floppy since the vendor had used a small partition for diagnostic
>data, and I wanted to clear that out.
>
>But I am installing the WNT 4.0 now, and Setup is unable to deal with the
>4 Gbyte partition. It claims it is 'Unformatted or Damaged' and gives me
>an opportunity to format it. But then it says the partition can't be
>formatted because it is too large.
>
>I guess I'm not surprised, since the W98 probably put FAT32 on the drive,
>and WNT 4.0 can't deal with it. Perhaps if I was able to format it with
>NTFS I wouldn't have the current problem.
>
>Do you know some way I can install WNT 4.0 on the 4G drive? Is it
>possible to format it in some way from a floppy? Is there some other
>workaround?
>
>Thanks for any help.
>
> Dave
>
>
>David S. Woodruff http://www.lns.mit.edu/~dsw
>MIT Lab for Nuclear Science Phone: (617)-253-6943
>24-030g, MIT Email: dsw@mitlns.mit.edu
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