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NT installation problems on dual system

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by shanghai sam

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Hi There

If any one can offer any suggestions on the following problems I would appreciate it. I am running a dual system with XP,98,ME,2000 and NT. I can get all the above operating systems on my PC with no problems apart from windows NT. Upon attempting to install windows NT I get the following message when choosing what partition to install NT on "setup encountered an error while updating partition information on 8063 Disk 0". I am running NT off the logical partition with windows 98 on the primary. I have made sure that win98 has been formatted using the fat 16 file system, I have tried formatting NT using both the NTFS and Fat file system. Which made no difference.

Please can any one help?

Cheers

Martin

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by dmiles

Depending on the operating system order that you have the systems installed,is causing the problem.

The installation of NT based on the order you have in your question is reading the fat32 file systems and will not be recognized

When partitioning you cannot enable large disk support it will automatically install a Fat 32 file system

NT install needs to be installed before the other operating systems that have FAT 32 file systems partitions

It will be suggested to partition the drive using partition magic or system partition to to install the FAT 16 file system and then convert the partitions to desired file system

Bottom line the drive has be parttioned with a FAT file system or it will not work

by jingernut

Hey Soulrider

For some bizarre reason I cannot respond to this question that I asked. But I just wanted to say thanks for all your tips, I did'nt think about fdisk automatically allocating the fail system to fat 32. I got hold of partition magic and started again, after this it worked like a dream. Thanks again I am just sorry I can't give you the points

Cheers

Martin

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