nt 4.0 server and 30 gig hard drive

[isrmike]

This is a new install of nt 4.0 server on a p3 750 and a 30 gig ibm drive. nt only sees it as a 8 gig but bios shows lba correct size. we want a 2 gig fat primary and a ntfs balance. any suggestions [sig][/sig]

 

[prinand]

just create the 2 GB root partition, and setup NT completely. Once NT is running properly, you can use the disk administrator to create any NTFS partition size you want, and format it.
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[MasterRacker]

You can find more info from some posts a few months ago in this forum. To summarize a couple of helpful points:

1. NT cannot have a system partition larger than 7.8 GB. Without service pack 4 or better that number is 3.9 GB.

2. Without SP4 or better NT cannot see anything larger than 8 GB for a disk at all.

In other workd, even to do what prinand said, you must get NT running with SP4 or better before creating the 28GB data partitinon. [sig]<p> Jeff<br><a href=mailto: masterracker@hotmail.com> masterracker@hotmail.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>If everything seems to be going well: you don't have enough information.......[/sig]