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if you were doing it from scratch i don't know if you could - i remember the partition limitation on NT when installing from a CD boot was 4GB (?) sorry, i haven't installed one in years and forgot. of course you can partition any size after that...but that's not C drive...
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i made drive c: 300 mb..install nt and sp5 and make drive d: 7gb ntfs...and delete drive c: and reinstall nt on drive d...which will become drive..once i delete drive c ...
It's working:
My Drive C is now 7.27 GB NTFS
It's working:
My Drive C is now 7.27 GB NTFS
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Ah, take a look here for the answer: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q119497
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From: Austin
I believe what you are referring to is the file system choices. If you want it to be a large size, then you have a few options, but... let me explain how it works and why there is a limitation.
FAT16 - limit of 2GB in space
FAT32 - the limit is well... WAY UP THERE
NTFS - the limit is up there as well.
HOWEVER, upon installation of the OS, which I assume you are doing - if its a FRESH INSTALL, then the limitation will be 4GB for NTFS installation. Is this where you are going? If so.. that 4GB is made from VFAT (virtual fat16 w/64k clusters instead of 32 that fat16 uses). This is used to install the OS onto a FAT16 partition and then convert it to NTFS afterwards.
If you use FAT32 you do not have this problem.
If you take the drive and format it/partition it out on another system you will not have this problem.
Hope this helps.
FAT16 - limit of 2GB in space
FAT32 - the limit is well... WAY UP THERE
NTFS - the limit is up there as well.
HOWEVER, upon installation of the OS, which I assume you are doing - if its a FRESH INSTALL, then the limitation will be 4GB for NTFS installation. Is this where you are going? If so.. that 4GB is made from VFAT (virtual fat16 w/64k clusters instead of 32 that fat16 uses). This is used to install the OS onto a FAT16 partition and then convert it to NTFS afterwards.
If you use FAT32 you do not have this problem.
If you take the drive and format it/partition it out on another system you will not have this problem.
Hope this helps.
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From: Beaverton
with NT4 sp5 i ran into an issue with C: partitions >7.87GB (? or close). The systems would randomly lose the boot sector, and the OS was toast. There is a KB article about this "feature".
Bottom line, don't make the boot partition be larger than ~7.87GB.
Bottom line, don't make the boot partition be larger than ~7.87GB.
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From: Austin
Originally posted by Otter
Partition Magic does the trick
Partition Magic does the trick