answer this and ur a genius!!! literally!!!!

[nehalmistry]

be patient and read with no distractions:

ok.... this is the thing... i have the program partition magic 5 .... and unfortunately it doesnt do the kind of magic that i want...

i have a 6.4 gig partition with three 2.0 gig fat 16 partitions.... i want to install winNT 4.0 on a NTFS partition... unfortunately u can only install NT4.0 on a ntfs partition that starts in the first 2 gigs of ur HD(i read this somewhere and i tried it so i know its true) and if i try moving all fat16 partitions forward to make room for a ntfs partition.... the boot record screws up because i moved the first fat16 partition where windows 95 is installed......

anyone have a fix for this!!! how can i install NT on NTFS with my partition configuration.


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[Jorden]

unfortunately u can only install NT4.0 on a ntfs partition that starts in the first 2 gigs of ur HD

You read wrong and tried wrong..

You must copy NT4 on a 2Gb FAT16 partition somewhere, on your harddrive.

From the copy partition you install NT4 for real. And you can try to put it in an NTFS partition, if you have had the chance to format it to NTFS. Which you haven't

Best thing to do is install NT4 in a FAT 16 partition, preferably on a drive with at least 2Gb free, non-partitioned.

Install NT4, then if you want to dual boot, make sure you have a small partition up front, first partition, to put the dual boot in. You can use PM for this.

Whatever room you have free on the disk, leave it unpartitioned, and use NT4 to partition and format it to NTFS.

I hope I gave you some head-start with this

Jord.

[nehalmistry]

i ran into the same problem... maybe i didnt explain my previous problem clearly.... sorry... this is what i did

1. i made a new fat16 partition near end of hard drive....
2. set it active....
3. then booted with a win95 boot disk
4. i went into the win nt setup directory and typed
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D:\> winnt /B
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the /B is for floppyless operation... it copied the files to that partition... after it did that it came up with message something like this

"setup will restart and continue with win NT installation, remove any disks and press enter"

so i did that.... my computer restarted.... but when it tried booting from the hard drive.... it just froze... no message no anything.....

help needed again!!!!!!

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Matrox Milleniumm G200 AGP
Creative SB Awe32 (a classic, superb card)
Realtek 8029A NIC Card
64meg Ram
Ali V agp chipset

[The PIT]

Jordans right you can install it anywhere however you must a small fat 16 partition to boot from up front as he says as NT doesn't understand fat32.
If the machine freezes it's suggesting a conflict that NT cannot resolve. I presume you're not trying to boot from a ata66 controller?

[HedsSpaz]

1. i made a new fat16 partition near end of hard drive....
2. set it active....

I think that may be part of your problem. You should always keep your primary partition active. All system boot files will always end up on the first partition regardless of where you install NT. There are only a few of those files anyway, ntldr, boot.ini, and a few others, I don't remember what they are though. Basically, change the active partition back to the fat16 partition at the begining of the disk and try rerunnning setup.

Ian

[Gurm]

No, here's what you do:

1. Make Win9x boot correctly.

2. DO NOT SET ANY OTHER PARTITIONS ACTIVE.

3. Run the NT 4.0 Installer from within Win9x, pick the partition to install it to...

- Gurm

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[RAB]

One problem I ran into when installing NT was actually with the motherboard bios. Make sure the first Bios page has your hard drive detection set as AUTO. NT could not find my hard drive properly until I did this, even though it went through the setup without any problems.
RAB

[This message has been edited by RAB (edited 17 June 2000).]

[Pace]

My friend has just done this (dual boot 9x/nt) and I've got dual 98/2K.

So, NT needs a FAT16 partition to boot from which must be the first (primary) partition on the drive. NT sticks it's boot loader here and puts the system files in any partition you want (and I think the limit is the 1st 4Gb). Win9x can also be installed on the FAT16 partition before installing NT.

You won't need partition magic at all to install NT or make the partitions (unless you want to keep your existing data 'safe' be resizing partitions).

HTH, Paul.

[arbymo]

What Gurm said is right ...
restore ur HD as it was previously, boot through 9x, run winnt from within win9x ( faster !! ) and install NT in the second partition; as Pace said .. NT has a limit for the system partition to be in the 1st 4 GB of the HD. that 2nd partition doesn't have to be free or anythin .. even if it's fat 16 .. setup will ask u if u want to reformat that as ntfs .. just make sure u copy ur data from there .. and no need for partition magic, the nt loader will present u a boot menu.
good luck.


[This message has been edited by arbymo (edited 19 June 2000).]

[Jorden]

Problem there: if you format FAT16, you can only format 2Gb partitions.

If you do need FAT32, goto http://www.sysinternals.com/fat32.htm and get the program there. At least read through those pages for more info.

Jord.