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8.4GB NT Install Barrier

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by john.a 1 view

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Have a HP 8750C Pavilian I want to use as a test server. Every time I install NT 4.0 I am limited to 8.4GB. I have low level formated it (the complete 30G), and I have changed CMOS/Bios to reflect the correct LBA and the correct heads/cyl. I have NOT done a high level DOS format though, I have been letting NT format and partition it during install. One note during install, the mass storge devices detected during install does not include the hard drive, only the CDs. What am I missing? Thanks in advance everyone.

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by dcassat

I believe that is the limit for your first partition. Within NT you can use disk administrator to partition and format the rest of the drive.

by jwilczyn

Redetect your HD in BIOS. Next run fdisk to create partitions.
You have a limit for the 1st partition on HD: for FAT16 ? 2GB(any partition); for FAT32/NTFS ? 8GB.Win2000 ? different story ? almost no limit and NTFS rev5. For NTFS, if you want to have a bigger partition than 8GB, there is a way around it. You can try to use a program as the Partition Magic ? install WinNT on max 8GB partition and next resize it to 30GB using this program. 2nd e.g. Norton Ghost ? create image of your HD, save it to CD, and then boot from floppy, run Ghost and specify the size of a new partition (e.g. 30GB).

by sdbytnar

You can install to one partition of 30GB if you format the drive to that size to start.

1) Put drive in another NT system
2) Format 30GB drive as NTFS
3) Put drive back in HP
4) Install NT and leave file system intact

This should get aroundthe 8GB limit

Sean

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