lukeofearl
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Hello everyone,
I just installed windows NT 4.0 workstation on an old machine I had laying around. The computer has a 40 gig HD. One obstacle with NT 4 is that it won't allow you to format a partition larger than 4 gigs during setup. To get around this I initially created a 4 gig partition (NTFS), updated the system with all updates + SP6, then used partition magic to resize the NTFS partition to the full 40 gigs. Currently the system runs fine -- it appears to correctly recognize the entire drive, there have been no problems booting up, etc. After doing some reading though I realized that if any system files cross the 4 gig barrier the computer may become unbootable. With SP6 installed is this still the case? Or has microsoft corrected the limitation? Any thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Also, feel free to request any info I didn't include. Thanks!
Luke
I just installed windows NT 4.0 workstation on an old machine I had laying around. The computer has a 40 gig HD. One obstacle with NT 4 is that it won't allow you to format a partition larger than 4 gigs during setup. To get around this I initially created a 4 gig partition (NTFS), updated the system with all updates + SP6, then used partition magic to resize the NTFS partition to the full 40 gigs. Currently the system runs fine -- it appears to correctly recognize the entire drive, there have been no problems booting up, etc. After doing some reading though I realized that if any system files cross the 4 gig barrier the computer may become unbootable. With SP6 installed is this still the case? Or has microsoft corrected the limitation? Any thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Also, feel free to request any info I didn't include. Thanks!
Luke