From: Gary Britt 

Thanks,

Just so I'm clear.  When you say boot partition below are you speaking
about the partition in which NT is actually installed or the first
partition on the disk that contains the MBR and Partition Tables ??

Thanks,

Gary

Geo. wrote:
> "John Beckett"  wrote in message
> news:701343595i7f95kqu7dkve8u24hhcfcqbd{at}4ax.com...
>
>> The NT4 setup does not use the BIOS extensions to allow handling large
>> IDE
>> disks, and so setup fails. The solution is to use certain drivers from
>> SP4
>> or later (ISTR you add them by pressing F6 during setup).
>
> Windows 2000  and XP was the same way, anything over 128gb or was it
> 137gb, instructions at
> http://www.nthelp.com/nt6/big_disk_limitations_in_xp.htm
>
> I think that works for NT4 as well. As I remember you create a boot
> partition of 8gb, install NT then after it's installed and SP6a is
> applied do the regedit and partition the rest of the drive. Don't use a
> boot partition over 8gb, it's nothing but trouble and NT only takes a
> hundred meg for the install.
>
> Geo.

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