Installing New Hard Drive

[efinnen]

Heres the situation. I have 2 Hard Drives, One 10 Meg (partioned into a 2Gig C and a 8Gig D) and an E that is 20 Gig. <br><br>I'm running out of space on my C, some programs I use write temp files to the C directory and keep blowing up. I now have a new 30 Gig hrad drive. What I would like to do is take my 10 gig Drive out replace it with the 30 Gig and set up a 4Gig C drive (To the best of my knowledge, that is the max space for a c drive) and a 26 Gig D drive. <br><br>Any suggestions on the best way to do that. If possible I would like a C that is larger then 4Gig (but I don't think I can do that until I get Win2000). If possible I would like To not reinstall all my software, but I will if necessary.<br><br>Thanks for any help or advice<br><br>-Eric<br><br>

 

[dxd]

Actually, with the SP4 version of ATAPI.SYS you can have the boot partition 7.8gb NTFS.<br><br>Are you looking to install a fresh copy on the new drive or copy your exisiting install to the new drive?<br><br>If you will be installing from scratch, create a 2gb FAT partition on the drive and copy the contents of the I386 folder to it. Then replace the original atapi.sys and setupdd.sys with that of the SP4 version. Modify the unattend.txt as follows:<br><br>[Unattended]<br>OEMPreinstall=YES<br>ExtendOEMPArtition = 1,nowait<br>FilesSystem=ConvertNTFS<br><br>Install Windows NT from the I386 folder on the hard drive using ---&gt; winnt /b /u:untattend.txt<br><br>NT will install, convert the drive to NTFS and extend it to the maximum amount...7.8gb.<br><br>If you are wanting to copy what you have to the new drive then it will require a program like Ghost or DriveImage Pro.<br>However, if your current C drive is FAT you will need to convert it to NTFS prior to imaging your drive. You can do a drive to drive copy and resize the destination partitions accordingly. 7.8gb for C and the rest for D.<br><br><br> <p>Doug<br><a href=mailto:dxd_2000@yahoo.com>dxd_2000@yahoo.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>

 

[MasterRacker]

Even the orignal NT 4 can create a 7.8 GB system partition if you start from a non-partitioned disk and boot directly from the CD to run the setup and format directly to NTFS. <p> Jeff<br><a href=mailto: masterracker@hotmail.com> masterracker@hotmail.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br> Of all the things I've lost in life, I miss my mind the most ...

 

[dxd]

Jeff...I disagree. Although NT will see up to 7.8gb during the install you will not be allowed to create a partition larger than 4090mb. You get an error from NT indicating the partition is too large. This is due to the fact that the partition is first formatted to FAT to store the temporary files and upon reboot is converted to NTFS. FAT has a 4gb limitation.<br><br>There are only two methods I am aware of using what is provided with NT to make the system partition 7.8gb. First, you can move the drive to another system running NT and create and format a 7.8gb NTFS partition or you can do it as I detailed previously by running the install in unattended mode. Outside of what NT offers you can use PartitionMagic or the like to create the partition.<br><br>The inclusion of SP4 atapi.sys is mainly to overcome NT's problems with identifying and using IDE drives larger than 8gb.<br><br> <p>Doug<br><a href=mailto:dxd_2000@yahoo.com>dxd_2000@yahoo.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>

 

[MasterRacker]

Woops!&nbsp;&nbsp;I stand corrected.&nbsp;&nbsp;That's what you get for being in a hurry.&nbsp;&nbsp;It's been so long since I did one myself that I forgot our standard setups are using 3.9GB system partitions.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was a different disk I used when I did the bigger one.&nbsp;&nbsp;You're absolutely correct.&nbsp;&nbsp;The modified FAT used by original NT has the 3.9GB size limitation. <p> Jeff<br><a href=mailto: masterracker@hotmail.com> masterracker@hotmail.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br> Of all the things I've lost in life, I miss my mind the most ...