NT4 wk refuses to install on 40GigHD

[omikron]

After getting a pretty big new MAXTOR 40 to play with I got frustrated trying to copy or even re-install NT40 workstation on it. The drive has a FAT16b primary partition and a mix of logical FAT16 and FAT32 partitions on it.<br>
Copying didn't work at all...it would hang boot after DMI check. Maybe NT writes something to the MBR, I don't know...<br>
So I decided to go thru the trouble of a new install. Without luck. Most common error message was that there are partitions that &quot;exceed 1024 cylinders...and that MS-DOS can't deal with it.&quot;<br>
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The old HD was a FUJITSU 8.4 GIG with 3 FAT32 logical partitions and NT4 didn't complain then...<br>
I have an inkling that it might be necessary to only have FAT32 logical partitions at least at installation time but I'm tired of trying after 6 attempts or so.<br>
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(Using every POWERQUEST software availabe...)

 

[raysinclair]

Have you tried the opposite of having only FAT32 partitions? [as NT4 does not deal with FAT32 partitions] and try having only the one FAT16 partition. At first, see if you can successfully create a format /s boot partition. Then install NT4, then play with creating the other(non supported) partitions after you have a successful install?<br>
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Quite often, the main board bios also have problems with dirves greater then 8gigs or so,unless you have a really new main board or bios update.

 

[MasterRacker]

NT 4 cannot recognize a boot paritition larger than 8GB. It cannot create a boot partition at install larger than 4GB without modifying the install floppies with a new version of ATAPI.sys. It also cannot recognize FAT32 at all unless 3rd party software has been installed after NT is installed. Your best bet is to remove all partitions, create a 4000MB system partition through NT setup, install to it, install Service Pack 5 or 6, then use NT's disk administrator to do the rest of the disk. Please refer to the thread &quot;NT Workstation on 27GB Drive&quot; posted by &quot;snicks2&quot; on 10/7 (Last post as of today 11/2/99) for more details on NT's disk woes. <p> Jeff<br><a href=mailto: masterracker@hotmail.com> masterracker@hotmail.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>