Instructions - Installing Windows NT on a Large IDE Drive

Hi ..

this for all the people who try to install WinNT 4 ona large IDE drive..


you will encounter 2 things -

1. setup reports the size of your HDD wrong
2. ssetup will crash - you cannot install


I'll ignore 1 - after WInNT is installed and you run Sp6a your HDD will report at the right size..

as for 2 -

you can follow microsoft Instructions - they work about 80% of the time :
http://support.microsoft.com/support...SRCH&SPR=NTW40

For those who want MY way of doing it - here goes:

1. Get a Floppy with DOs 6.22 and FDISK and format http://www.bootdisk.com

2. Fdisk and Format one Primary Active Partition 2GB FAT16

3. Copy the i386 directory to the HDD.
(smartdrv will speed things up)

4. boot from a floppy (with smartdrv)
run winnt /b from i386

5. after the installtion is done install service Pack 6a
http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nt...SP6/allSP6.asp

6. after service Pack is installed convert c: to ntfs

from cmd (command prompt)
type

convert c: /fs:ntfs

7. get a flopy with Ghost and use Partition to IMAGE (you can either do it straight to CD-R or to another HDD)

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Now you have an Image of Working NT 4 for any occasion <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0"> (all you need is a program called Newsid http://www.sysinternals.com and to change the PID and User in the registry - no more installs - NT IS NOT PnP !!)

This will not work on SCSI drives - but the problwm is only on IDE..
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8. reboot with the Ghost floppy - this time select local -> Disk from Image and reimage the HDD from the image you created (you can now specify the size you want..)


Enjoy ..