Formatting Hard disk

[kiv]

Please help.

I am installing Windows NT Workstation on a 7GB hard disk.
I booted up the PC using the NT CD-ROM.
When a tried to create a partition to use the entire hdd space it give me this message:

Setup cannot format the partition
C: New (Unformatted) 7154 MB Disk 0 at Id 0 on atapi
because it is too large.

How do I overcome this problem so that I can use all the space on the HDD.

Your help will be highly appreciated.

 

[SESaskDFC]

Howdy:

Setup is actually limited to creating a 4Gig System Partition because it starts as a FAT16 partition (unless you use an unattended setup and use ExtendOEMPartition). You can also pre-format the partition as NTFS and use the 7.8GB maximum.

The INT13 standard has been updated, so newer operating systems (Win95OSR2, Win98, Win2000) do not have these same limits.

Once installed, use the Disk Management tool to partition and format the remainder.

Murray

 

[kiv]

Thanks for your advice.

How do I pre-format the partition as NTFS?

 

[SESaskDFC]

Go to the following url and download the NT4 Workstation bootdisks and install them on floppies..

http://www.tech24.com/help/tools/bootdisk.asp

Murray