boot partition size limitation on NT

In NT4 you are restricted to 4gig partitions unless you use Partition Magic or similar. What I do is make a small fat C partition and I make sure atapi.sys from SP 5 or 6a is on that fat C so I can format the remainder of the drive over 4gigs. Hope that helps

NT support only maximum boot partition size of 7.8 GB. A bit shy of 8 GB. This martition must be at the beginning of the disk or the max size will be smaller. Here is a link for more details...

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q224/5/26.ASP

HTH

To add complication:

the server is RAID-5 and I have tried to use 7.8 GB as my boot partition but no luck.

NTFS well allow a 4 gig boot partition during setup. After that you can get Powerquest Partition Magic and resize the partition. This is the easiest, and only way I know how.

More questions to add:

if I use Partition Magic to increase the size of boot partition, will NT still be able to boot from it? how about if I use Disk Administrator from NT?

Can I use Windows 2000 (after I upgrade the NT to Windows 2000) to increase the boot partition?

Partition Magic can resize bootable partitions so it should work from you, and is a much more capable tool that the drive tools provided with NT and 2000.

Why on earth have such a large boot partition? Keep them small - 2Gb is generlly enough or go for 4Gb if you want a large swap file on it.

Once you have SP 5 or later on, then you can use disk administrator to setup the rest of your disk and partitions to whatever size you want. No need for 3rd party software and the extra documentation you will have to maintain on your system setup.

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