From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Don't recall, but wasn't it possible to direct install onto NTFS to get
around the 2 gig install partition limit?

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Glenn M.
"Robert Comer"  wrote in
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> To install NT4, it also require that the boot/system partition is 2G
> or less. (FAT16 limit)  If you then convert to NTFS, you can enlarge
> the partition using PQMagic...
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> Bob Comer
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> NT$ alsoOn Wed, 09 May 2007 11:01:48 -0400, Gary Britt
>  wrote:
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>>  Thanks but I've got an ancient version of Partition
Magic 7.  It does
>>have the markers for the 8gb limit also.  So it appears the correct
>>understanding would be that the NT Partition itself (along with any
>>partitions below the NT partition) need to reside within the first 8gb.
>>That's not a requirement for XP what about Win2K?  Is Win2K 8gb sensitive?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Gary
>>
>>Glenn Meadows wrote:
>>> I believe it's that whatever partition NT boots from has to reside below
>>> that point.
>>>
>>> I recall in earlier versions of Partition Magic, there were visual
>>> carats on
>>> the drive map display at the 8 gig point, where early OS's had to reside
>>> below that boundary, even if the partition was larger than that.
>>>
>>> I've got some ancient 4 and 6 gig HD's I could probably locate for you
>>> to
>>> use as install partitions for NT4.....LOL
>>>

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