Hard Drive too big?

[jcontonio]

I am installing Win NT on my Maxtor 20 Gig....NT is saying that the drive is too big even though it only sees 8 Gigs of it...what's up? How do I remedy this?

 

[jthsmak]

If you are using fat16 that might be the prob. For a minute I thought your hard drive was too big so you were gonna send it to me.

 

[htown]

I'm running two maxtor 20gbs with no problem.
Win2k is on one hard drive and Win98se is on another.
Cluster size is set to 16K and on a FAT32 file system.

 

[jcontonio]

NT, not 2K...NT 4.0

 

[Pariah]

MSKB

 

[Digobick]

Nevermind...Pariah fixed his link.

 

[Pariah]

That was pretty good digobick, it was wrong for about 30 seconds and you caught it.

 

[Pariah]

argh... just padding my post count... don't mind me

 

[MrBond]

Does your bios support drives larger then 8gb? That could be the problem. What board are you using?

 

[Pariah]

It's a Windows NT boot partition limitation. I think most 1.2GHZ Athlon systems have the 8GB IDE limit BIOS patch.

 

[TheCandyman]

I had this problem until I installed the 6a service pack. that should fix it.