Larger Partitions

[ferret]

On numerous Server installs when setting up the partitions the software only allows us a 1 GB partition for the primary partition. Anyone have a way around this? I'd really like a little more breathing room on the primary.... Thanks

 

[waynemaples]

During the installation of Windows NT, Setup determines the best partitioning scheme to use based on the existing partition table entries and where you choose to install Windows NT. Windows NT Setup restraints restrict the boot partition of up to 4 GB. The limit may be smaller depending on disk geometry. The actual value that is used as the limit is whatever Setup believes to be 1024 cylinders worth of disk space. Sometimes this is 1 GB, 2 GB, or 4 GB, but can be some other value depending on the make, model, and configuration of the hard disk adapter in use. This is the amount of space with which the text-mode portion of the installation can work. From this amount, you can create partitions that do not exceed 4 GB because the partition must first be formatted FAT and this file system has a limit to 4 GB. see

http://is-it-true.org/nt/atips/atips44.shtml

for more info.

-Wayne
Contentmaster
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