The System partition (holding ntldr, boot.ini, etc.) MUST be entirely within the first 7.8Gb of any disk (IDE & SCSI).

Like Relson mentioned, you can have some serious problems with anything larger (data loss, system not being able to boot, etc)

Also NT 4.0 only supports FAT16 & NTFS 4 file system

And YES STAY AWAY FROM PARTITION MAGIC

A co-worker of mine lost an entire partition of data (source code, project documentation, etc) just because he wanted to allocated more disk space to his D: drive.

 

The system partition can only be 4096 MB MAX when installing from the CD. A program like Ghost will let you adjust the partition sizes when blowing the image down. Go download the demo. www.symantec.com If you do use it on NT 4.0, you will also need to run ghstwalk.exe to reset the SID on the PC. This is not what Ghost was really designed for, but it will get the job done.

You could always use two partitions too. One for OS and software and the other for data. Sure makes it easy for reparing a failed OS. Just depends on how you want to work.

I wouldn't use Partition Magic either.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Schatten
[B]I believe what you are referring to is the file system choices.