From: "Glenn Meadows" 

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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Glenn M.
"Gary Britt"  wrote in
message news:4641d4c5$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> 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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