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NT 4.0 -- Hard Drives bigger than 8 Gig??

#1 kingfinger

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Posted 03 July 2000 - 06:16 PM

Hi Guys,

i hope anyone of you can help me

How can i use my 14 gig hrd drive under NT4.

While setting up my comp nt4 reports an error that my drive is bigger than 8 gig and cancelles installation.

what can i do?

Btw. what sp should i use ? 4, 5 or 6???

cu kingfinger

#2 Llion

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Posted 03 July 2000 - 06:31 PM

#3 kingfinger

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Posted 03 July 2000 - 07:41 PM

Hi Lilion,

thx a lot for your quick help

cu kingfinger

#4 euankirkhope

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Posted 04 July 2000 - 06:37 AM

I think what you have done is install NT on a partition over 6.4GB (1024 cylinders) This requires "int13" support from the bios, and Microsoft boot loader, of which the latter is the problem. Just make sure NT is installed before the 6.4gb point, and it will boot.