From: Thees Peereboom 

Geo,

Ok. Thanks!

- Thees Peereboom

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 21:15:10 -0500, Geo.  wrote:

> 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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