NT INSTALLATION

It's been awhile since I last install an NT4 system. Anyway, my guess NTFS4 maximum of 4GB. If you want 3 partition, 1-4GB NTFS for you main installation directory ( security wise) and 2-8 GB of FAT 32 partition. Or you can opt for NTFS 5 which willenable you a higher to 4GB per partition.

i agree with the previous answer but there's another part that you have to consider before making partitions. WinNT install will freak out over anything bigger than 8GB. So here's the catch, just make a partition e.g. 2GB and install winnt on it or dont make any partition and let the NT install do the partitioning. NT requires busmastering drivers to read the rest of the hdd and that is installed with SP4 and higher. Hope this helps if not let us know again....

Because when you first install NT it is installed on FAT16, the primary partition can be no larger than 4gig, even if you choose to format it to NTFS it doesnt till it reboots and converts.
So to keep the answer simple create a 2gig primary partition and install NT on it, then once in NT use Disk Administrator (start-programs-administrative tools-disk administrator)to create the two other partitions you want using the remaining 18gig (these need to be formatted as NTFS if larger than 4gig).
Its quicker and easier to do it from NT.

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