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by el guapo 4 views

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Hello,

Has anyone worked extensively with PowerQuest's PM 5.0 or 5.01? Installed this in our trainer pc's trying to dual boot w98 and nt4.0. Observed the limitations (2gb mark and the cylinder 1024). I made a partition for NT 650mb in size at the first 2 gb of the disk. Somehow during the install, NT claims the partition was corrupted and halted the install. Tried to use the rescue disks that PM 5.01 made to re-adjust the original partition and restore booting to w98. Nothing happened.The pc is stuck in DOS and is unbootable to W98. PowerQuest tech support is stumped as well.
Any insight on what had happened?

Thanks

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by eyek

Make sure that the disk is FAT16. You cannot able to install WINNT on FAT32. Convert your hard drive to FAT16 then install WINNT.

by pvp

Yes, ensure that your partition is FAT16.

Even if you're planning on using NTFS, install to FAT16 and let NT convert it later.

NT install is pretty picky about how the NTFS partition was created--likes its own best!

by jason fitzpatrick

What I would do is boot off the NT CDROM and then hit enter to do a fresh install, when it askes you where you want to do the install to (partitioned space / unformatted space etc) there is an option to remove a partition, do this and then tell NT to install into the unpartitioned space, NT will then repartition the space (make sure that you choose FAT, 98 cant see NTFS drives)and from there on it is plain sailing,

install 98 (boot off the 98 CD for this one)
and install into a different partition(make sure that this is FAT as well)NT cant see FAT32 and therefore there is little or no point in having the dual boot.

once this is done boot of the NT CD again and do a repair on the Boot sector and this will create the Boot Gui.

Good Luck

Jay

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