NT Server Installation

[JohnStep]

I have a question about installing NT. I keep getting this message and am baffold how NT wants me to partition my drive.

"Setup is unable to locate the hard drive partition prepared by the MS-DOS partion of setup.

When you run MS-Dos Windoes NT Setup Program, you must specify a temporary drive that is supported by Windoes NT."

Then the install ends. I have my harddrive partition with one MS-Dos parimary partition. As well I am installing with WINNT. Am I missing something here??

Thanks in advance,

John Stephens




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[Tanja]

Hi,

Try to low format your Hd.

 

[CitrixEngineer]

You've probably built the partition using fdisk that came with Win95 or later. If you choose the option to enable large hard drive support, fdisk will create the partition as FAT32. NT cannot install on FAT32, hence the message.

You need to fdisk the drive and create the primary partition as FAT16. [sig][/sig]

 

[dpellegrini]

I've only had success in creating 1 partition with Fdisk from Win98 boot disks. I don't format the drive though. I create the partition, enable large disk support, and after rebooting, I install NT. NT will format the whole partition and create one volume instead of multiple partitions. Try it and see of it helps.
Dom [sig][/sig]

 

[cadman2]

God forbid that I should pose questions to these forums (taking from the time of the pros that use them) and not report on the outcome!
Take ANOTHER STEP, JOHN! Let us know something! [sig]<p> <br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br> [/sig]

 

[MasterRacker]

Actually the cleanest way (I think - if the system allows it) is to leave the drive unpartitioned completely, change your BIOS settings to boot from CD-ROM first. Boot from the CD itself and let NT own setup create and format the partition. Then change the boot order back to FDD, HDD. One caveat: don't make the boot partion larger than 3.9GB. - I use 4000MB. [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]

 

[JohnStep]

I finally resolved to Partition a 200mb and formatted FAT 16 off that. Then I tried to reinstall NT and it worked just fine. What happen was initially I formatted the whole HD as a DOS primary. Then when I tried to install NT it would not install in the Primary DOS Partition. So when I did'nt set the partition as primary and only held it for 200 mb accountable NT installed on the remaining portion as it should have.

Thanks to everyone for the help.

John Stephens [sig][/sig]

 

[MasterRacker]

200MB is very small for NT. Unless you have manually moved your paging file to another partition you're going to run into problems. (I have my servers set to warn me when their C: partitions drop below 500MB free. My print server warns when it has less than 1GB free.) [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]

 

[dpellegrini]

Yes, You will definitely not want such a small partition. I, also, recommend increasing it's size. [sig][/sig]

 

[JohnStep]

No, the 200mb was only for DOS. The total HD is 4.3 gig. I partition it off into C: (200 mb for DOS) and D: for NT which resolves the remaining. When I initially tried to install NT with all 4.3 in a Primary DOS partition , NT cried cause there was no room for it to be installed on sence I allocated all 4.3 on DOS. So I used only 200MB for DOS (Which might be too much) and then left the rest for NT and it loaded fine.

Hope this clears it up

John Stephens [sig][/sig]

 

[Pritch5000]

Hey.
I think the max system partition NT will support is 4GB, I would recommend that you use a system partition suitable to your system (probably 1.5GB in your case) and the make the rest into a second primary partition (you can have four before you need extended partitions).
Perhaps make the system partition FAT so that you can more easily recover it, keep all you data on the second and make it NTFS for better security and response. Decide between security and speed or recoverability on the system partition. Install all apps on system partition, along with your pagefile.sys (which should be at least equal to the installed RAM).
Pritch. [sig][/sig]