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Problem with Disk Partition when install

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by tperdana

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We are trying to install Windows NT 4 Workstation on IDE Hard Disk and I've got this error message:

Setup has encountered a fatal error that prevents it from continuing.
Contact your product support representative for assistance.
The following satus codes will assist them in diagnosing the problem:
(0x5, 0, 0, 0x2)
Setup cannot continue. Press F3 to exit.

We were able to install this previously without any problem.

Thanks.

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by duskos

Perhaps your disk is formatted with FAT32 or NTFS 5. These file systems are unsupported with NT 4.0.

Try to repartition the entire disk. You can do this with either booting from 3 NT boot diskettes and choosing "delete partition" when asked for install location, or booting with Win 95/98 startup diskette and running fdisk. When you run fdisk, answer "No" when asked for the large disk support. Using fdisk, the largest Winnt startup partition you can create is 2GB (in some special circumstances it can be 4GB).

by tperdana

To: savatovic@yahoo.com

I have tried to create 1.9 GB partition and format it with just FAT (not FAT32). Still, the error message remained.

Anybody can tell me what does the code (0x5, 0, 0, 0x2) mean?

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