NT4 Workstation install

[XSLaYeR]

I have a new P2-450 machine with 320 MB SDRAM on an ASUS P2B-D board and a Seagate Medalist 8.4 gig HDD. I have Windows 98 installed on a 4 gig (FAT32) partition and the rest of the space is unpartitioned. I try to install NT4 Workstation (for a dual boot 98/NT)from the floppies and all goes well, but after it gets done copying all the files and goes down for reboot to continue setup, the machine hangs when it tries to boot of the hard drive. I formatted the NT partition as a 4 gig NTFS. It seems to me that the problem lies with the hard drive partitioning, but I'm not sure what. Any ideas?

[dsolodow]

I think I found your problem... nt installs the bootloader on the active partition on the first hard drive. nt can't read fat32 so the bootloader install probably failed...

[JeanneD]

He's right....you would have to say NO to fdisk large drive support and partition the C: drive fat16 for it to work.

[ecdonnel]

Advice provided to me from MS was that NTFS could support up to 6GB single boot partitioned HD. I have had no problems with Primary partitions up to 6GB but similar over this size