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by darrenm

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extremely sorry but forgot to add that my boot partition is fat and other is ntfs ......on my two questions
"administrator not recognized"
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"hard drive not fully recognized"

thanks

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by jim_rau

This is Jim again ... it doesn't really matter which way you format the drives (FAT or NTFS) because the issue is deeper than that.

Either the PC BIOS can't see the entire drive, which means NT will not either (and cause loading issues). If the whole drive is there then installing NT will use an old version of the IDE driver and this limits you as well.

My suggestion (because I had the same problem 10 days ago and it was way ugly)is to get the drive right first. I tried a BIOS upgrade andsaw more but not enough. I tried a new controller card but then the PC would not boot. When I put a 6.4GB drive in it was smooth sailing and the Microsoft document I referenced did the rest.

Another idea ... put a smaller (4.2GB) drive in as the primary and leave the 20GB in as a secondary. But still ... if the whole drive isn't shown in NT during the initial install at the point you define the partition size then it isn't right.

I hope you make it through this ... good luck!

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