[jdulmage]

When i'm in the installation of Windows NT 4.0 Server, after awhile, the program says "Setup cannot determine a hard disk in which to setup windows nt. in the MS-DOS part of the setup, you were supposed to select a hard disk to install to" or something like that, well, i doesn't even ask you where you want to install. How exactly do i go around this problem?

[rbarbier]

Why don't you first install dos 1.0. Then 2.0. Then 3.0. Then upgrade 3.0 to 3.1. Then install Windows 3.11. Make sure it is 3.11. Windows 3.11 has files that will help install Nt4.0. But before you install 4.0 nt you want to install Linux. It works. I did this on 10 computers and it worked.

[jdulmage]

what the hell are you talking about? if your still referring to this 92 message post, then your getting old, that is old news buddy. Anyone else care to give me the real answer to my problem

[kgeissler]

Are you running any SCSI cards or Promise IDE cards? Some need drivers at setup that NT 4.0 doesnt have.

If so, when you are running the DOS part of setup, I think you hit F6 to insert a driver disk.

[tylau]

When NT4 cannot found any FAT or NTFS partition or empty space on your system disks to copy 2nd stage files, it shows what u describes.

[This message has been edited by tylau (edited 02 April 2000).]

[jdulmage]

so i guess because it's FAT32, that i need to delete the partition and make it FAT

[Jabba]

No, it's becuase your partition is SKINNY. Feed it.

[jdulmage]

i have one partition of 20 GB, that's it, it's the primary

[kgeissler]

The MAXIMUM size for a NT 4.0 boot partion is 4GB.

And NT 4.0 doesn't see FAT32 partitions.

So you might need to make 2 partitions. One of 4GB and one of 16GB.

[jdulmage]

i just tried windows nt 4.0 server before i put it on my system and i didn't like it, so i'm not going to install it, i would like windows 2k better, but anyways, thanks for your help.

[SuperG]

You know.... if you lay off the crack. Everything works out great! Makes it really EASY to install an os. ;(
-SuperG

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Abit BX133 Raid
Celeron2 600@900
256 sdram
2 30 gig ata 100 in raid 0 form.
Geforce 2 GTS
Sblive etc etc...

[wind]

Uhh, its not that difficult Just boot of some sort of win9x/dos disk, create a 200mb partition thats fat16, run the setup from there and tell it to copy files to the fat16 drive, then boot of the 3 bootdisks and setup will be able to find the files its after on the fat16 partition - once nt's installed, remove the partition and tada.