JG> On 02-25-97, CHRISTER_S JOHANNESSEN said to JEFF FOY:
CJ>Is there any way to set up NT to install on a raw 
CJ>drive (not formatted),
CJ>and make NT partition and format the partitions? I 
CJ>intend to buy a 3.8 GB
CJ>harddisk during March, and that means a complete backup of everything I
CJ>have on my current 1.2 GB harddisk, re-partitioning 
 JG> it, and reinstalling
CJ>NT 4.0 (this time NT 4 Server) on it, leaving DOS 
CJ>out completely. Is that
CJ>at all possible, or do I have to create a FAT partition first, and then
CJ>convert it? ----- remiel
 JG> You can certainly do this - setup offers you the 
 JG> ability to pick and choose
 JG> the partitioning scheme as well as the file system 
 JG> type.  Note that it WILL be
 JG> FAT until a reboot (during setup) converts it to NTFS...
The NT 4.0 install doesn't convert it from FAT to NTFS on an unpartitioned 
drive if you choose NTFS Jeff. If it had to convert to NTFS after 
partitioning and formatting for FAT, you couldn't get a larger than 2 gig 
primary nor a larger than 4 gig which just isn't the case with NT 4.0. I 
don't know what the upper limit is with an NTFS primary partition, but it's 
greater than 4 gig. 
Has to be installed from a local CD-ROM using the 3 distribution boot 
floppies though. You can't do it without using FAT through a network or WINNT 
type install.
 
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