Dual Booting

install on drive d:

Well, as far as I know you can not install WINNT Server on a drive which is more than 4 GB. WINNT server does not support a boot drive which is more than 4 GB.

You can try contacting microsoft technical support or search the microsoft knowledgebase articles at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com

Hope this answers your question,

Best Regards,

Rafik El-Raheb.

Use partition Magic to create a new partition that is only 4GB in size. The new partition will probably be assigned a drive letter of F: (assuming E: is a CD/DVD). You could install NT Server to F:.

I am not sure why you would want to have both NT Workstation and NT Server on the same box. You could use partition Magic to make a new 12GB partition which would leave the C: drive 4GB and then install NT Server over NT Workstation (or a dual boot if you like).

Either way you should not haveto FDISK anything. Enjoy your project!

It the hard drive has not been formatted before,your options will be to update the bios,then upon startup click the hot key in the left bottom of screen to the CMOS control panel look for the hard disk in the right side and enable large disk support.
Secondly you may try installing the OS with Partition magic to maximum space,after installing,return to partition magic and see if you can enlarge the disk space that is desired.

Try article ID Q19766 at the Microsoft web site. It will point you to an updated Atapi.sys file on their FTP server. During the install you use this to specify a mass storage device. The above article will give you step by step instructions. Hope this helps.

WinNT is a sordid little beast. The problem is that the WinNT will not recognize drives larger than 4GB until the Service Pack is updated (I think to SP4) There really is no way around the initial setup.

An option you may consider (and good luck making it work) is to use your partition magic to creat a 4G partition of the C Drive, install WinNT, and then install the Service Pack 4 update. Once that is complete, you can then use your partition magic to repartition it larger.

Good luck!

We had a problem like this for a class we were doing. Let's see if I remember correctly. In partition magic we created a 2 GB partition in front of the Windows NT W/S by cutting some space of the NT Workstation partition. (Now W/S is only 2 Gigs too)and set it up to be the active partition and create it as C:. Now all of a sudden Workstation becomes your D: and your files are E:. You should have a C: drive now where you can install NT Server. NT server is installed as FAT then converted toNTFS after so the System folder can only be 4 Gigs. Good Luck. I hope this helps.

Why dont you partition it to 2Gb then when NT is loaded use disk admin to expand the partition.