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by don_knl

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Hello sir,

I faced a serious probs with window Nt 4.0 Operating system.When i installed on 20 GB Harddisk.I formatted with NTFS format then it will take only 8 GB Harddisk.Please help on prob.i want to format 20GB hdd with 3 partitions.

I am waiting for u r.....

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by vinnyd

With NT 4.0 you can only create a system partition of 7.xxx gb. That is all it supports.

After you get the system partition created you can create the other partitions that you want from the rest of the drive.

I normally use Partition Magic tocreate the partitions first myself like many others do. Then you can install NT into the existing partition.

by rabbit_runner

Hi, It sounds like your BIOS is an older BIOS. Some of these will only allow you to access a hard drive up to 8 GIG. Until you do that, you will not be able to see the entire 20 GIG.

Best of luck.

by @lberto

Install latest Service Pack and run Disk Administrator, it is a bug on Windows NT4, that is fixed on its Service Pack.

Good luck,

@lberto

by joseph moore

I agree with Answer3. The driver that comes with NT4 out-of-the-box (with no Service Packs) does not support drives larger than 8GB. So, NT will only see 8GB of your 20GB drive.
You can install NT on the 8GB drive C:, then install at least Service Pack 4. It was on SP4 that the driver was changed to support larger drives. But, since SP6a is out, use that one.
Then go into Disk Administrator and create the other drives you want, and they can be larger than 8GB.

Now, there is a Technet article Q197667 on this you can read:
http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q197667
(please remove any spaces)

hope this helps

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