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NT 4 Workstation installation

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by anamenow

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Having problems installing NT 4. I'm trying to install it on an Intel 667 Mhz machine on the secondary hard drive. The primary hard-drive is loading on windows 98 SE. I'm creating the bootable floppies and get to the stage where it asks for disk 3. It then checks for a hard drive but is unable to find one, stating that I must use MS-DOS NT setup to partition the drive. I am sure this is ok however. The drive is type FAT, sufficient space and formatted. Any ideas?

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by bhrdwh

The reason its unable to find the Hard Disk after floppy disk #3 is due to your FAT 32 for Win 98 OS. I suggest you boot your system with Win 95 or MS DOS 6.x having FAT 16 & also having CD Drivers in your config.sys & autoexec.bat & then run setup for Win NT. You acn also check your existing OS by using Fdisk.exe for FAT 16 / 32.
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by jwilczyn

WinNT4 doesn't recognise FAT32. If you have big HDs(more than 2.1GB - max size with FAT16) formatted with FAT32 you won't be able to install WinNT4. WinNT4 supports only FAT16 and NTFS. Win2000 supports FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS(5). You can change your mind and install Win2000 - no problem, or reformat HD with FAT16.

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