Installing NT4

[Ambassador]

thank you, you have been very informative.

One last question, does the NT4 NTFS support 9 gb HDs?

[os2fan2]

Try the information at http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=82169

Here i detail a setup of Winnt 4 + sp6a + later in two boots. I used this setup to install Winnt on a 73GB diskette. NT's boot partition must be within the first 8 GB, but it can read partitions larger than 8 GB.

[jaclaz]

My personal opinion is to make a small FAT16 partition, First, Primary, Active, size a little smaller than 1 Gb (it will get letter C:\), than an extended partition with inside it two logical volumes, either both NTFS or first one NTFS, second one FAT32 (remember you won't normally be able to access FAT32 volume from within NT 4.00, but see below) and have TWO instances of NT installed and one of Win98.

To recap:

First instance of NT installed on C:\ (C:\WINNT) - failsafe, to be used for recovery/managing, can be greatly slimmed down, if I remember correctly, once slimmed by taking out unneeded files (help files, networking related, unneeded drivers) it should take something less than 50 Mb

First and (and only) instance of Win98 on C:\ (C:\WINDOWS)

Second instance of NT installed on D: (D:\WINNT) - regular full install

About FAT32 access under NT4.00 there are two solutions, both FREEWARE:

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Fat32.html

http://ashedel.chat.ru/fat32/

http://www.chat.ru/~ashedel/fat32/fastfat32.rar

Viceversa, to access (READ ONLY) the NTFS volume inder W98 you can use:

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/NtfsWindows98.html

or if you need read/write access (from DOS window) get this:

http://www.free-av.com/antivirclassic/avira_ntfs4dos.html

Also you better get the FREEWARE bootpart:

http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm

make yourself a boot floppy as described here:

http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy33.htm

and learn how to use them to setup a multiboot system, and (just in case) be prepared to troible shoot it.

Updating NT 4.00 AT LEAST to SP4, but of course SP6a is better, is, in my view, MANDATORY.

jaclaz

Edited May 1, 2007 by jaclaz