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by singh_surjit

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I HAD A HARD DISK OF 20 GB AND WANT TO INSTALL WIN-98 AND WINNT 4.0 SERVER ON THE SAME MACHINE, USING WHOLE DISK SPACE AND MAKING PARTITIONS OF 2.1 GB EACH.I AM ABLE TO INSTALL WIN-98 ,BUT AFTER THAT WHEN I INSTALL WIN-NT SERVER IT CRASHES. THEN I REMOVE ALL THE PARTITIONS AND LEAVING ONLY
ONE PRIMARY PARTITION OF 2.1 GB, AND WINNT WAS INSTALLED SUCCESSFULLY(SP3) AND CREATED NTFS 3 PARTITIONS OF AROUNG 5 GB EACH . BUT AFTER THAT WHEN I TRIED TO INSTALL OPTION PACK 4.0 IT GIVES ERROR COULD NOTDETECT OS TYPE. HOW CAN I MAKE THEM WORKABLE. BY MAKING ONLY FAT16 PARTITIONS OF 2.1 GB EACH.
TELL ALL THE STEPS ASSUMING THAT 20 GB HARD
DISK IS BLANK.

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by bill cassada

I have a similar setup, only with workstation. I had to use FDISK and setup a primary partition using FAT 16. Install win98, then install WinNT...let WinNT setup ONE and only one partition for the OS (leave the rest of the space alone for now), then install SP4, reboot, then use NT's disk administrator to setup the remaining disk space as you see fit. Mine has been extremly stable since doing this. Good Luck!!

by bill cassada

Oh yeah...when you FDISK the drive don't set up any extended partitions...JUST SET UP THE ONE FAT16 PARTITION for Win98!! Let NT do it's own system partition during the install. Again, don't set up the rest of it until AFTER complete the WinNT install and then installing SP4!!

by slav1000

assuming your 20gig HD is blank, use
1)fdisk to create the primary partition, approximately 2 gigs. Make sure it's FAT16, not FAT32 (One 2 gig partition is enough for know, you can use NT's disk admin to create more partitions later.
2)format the drive and install WINDOWS98 first to C:\WINDOWS
3)install windows NT to C:\WINNT ,but make sure you change the directory for "Program Files", (both WINNT & 98 will stick program files into the same directory )
4)service pack NT
5)install the option pack

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