[554] in winnt
Re: WNT 4.0: how to install on 4 Gbytes? (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Hobbs)
Thu Sep 28 12:21:42 2000
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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 12:17:26 -0400
From: Mike Hobbs <mhobbs@mtl.mit.edu>
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To: "David S. Woodruff" <dsw@mitlns.mit.edu>
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Just boot with a Win98 boot floppy and run fdisk and delete the FAT32
partitions.
Mike
"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
>
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