[560] in winnt
Re: WNT 4.0: how to install on 4 Gbytes? (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stefan Stasik)
Thu Sep 28 14:55:00 2000
From: Stefan Stasik <stasik@ai.mit.edu>
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To: dsw@mitlns.mit.edu (David S. Woodruff)
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 14:55:12 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: stasik@ai.mit.edu (Stefan Stasik), ntpartners@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.21.0009281419300.11564-100000@pequod.mit.edu> from "David S. Woodruff" at Sep 28, 2000 02:25:30 PM
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Hi Dave,
Glad it worked! You can reclaim that extra space by using a
aftermarket drive tool like Partition Magic, Ghost or Commander, to
resize the C: partition to use the entire drive, after
you get NT4 up and running. Just remember to install the latest
Service Pack first. Also, if you restore the system back from the
CDROM in case of a system corruption (back to Service Pack 1), it will not boot
unless you resize the partition back under the 4 gig limit.
Your welcome and good luck!
- Stefan
Stefan Stasik - stasik@ai.mit.edu - (617) 253-2842 - E25-147G
System Manager - MIT Whitaker College Computing Facility
David S. Woodruff wrote:
>
> Hi Stefan,
>
> That fixed it! Thanks! When I specified 3999 Mybtes, Setup decided to
> format 4001 Mbytes, and it is formatting right now. That means I am out
> 126 Mybtes, but hey! I'll make another teeny partition.
>
> It's too bad there are just enough flavors of disk architectures and
> Windows operating systems to cause confusion about these questions.
>
> Dave
>
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Stefan Stasik wrote:
>
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> > I am familiar with the 'cannot format because partition to large'
> > error in the NT4 install. The Win NT4 install CD is based on either
> > SP0 (original release version) or SP1. At that time, the WinNT boot loader
> > did not support booting C: partitions that were larger than 4 GB
> > (3999 MB, to be exact.) SP3 fixed this problem, however, and so you
> > can work around the problem.
