From: "Geo." 

It's a FAT limitation because NT4 uses FAT to install then converts to
NTFS, if you format the partition with NTFS first (in another machine) you
can install to a 10g partition.

Geo.

"Thees Peereboom"  wrote in message
news:opr18wphk47q6jhl{at}news.barkto.com...
> John,
>
> Ok, thanks for this. I'll be prepared...
>
> - Thees Peereboom
>
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 08:14:05 GMT, John Beckett
>  wrote:
>
> > Thees Peereboom  wrote in message
> > news::
> >> The disk that will remain in the system is 10G, so I'll divide it in
two
> >> partitions.
> >
> > I totally forget the rules about when problems could occur with NT4. The
> > problem is that large disks (>8G) usually want an extension to the BIOS
> > to
> > drive the disk during startup. The original NT4 (no service pack) did
not
> > include the BIOS extensions (which were invented after NT4).
> >
> > So, if you do a new install and find some weird problem on reboot, you
> > might be looking at the big disk problem, and I could find my notes on
> > the
> > Knowledgebase articles.
> >
> > John
> >
>

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