You said less than 8 gig, I could be wrong, but I thought NT4 had to be on less than a 4 gig partition for the OS?
Did you try one that small?? :) >>I have this old PII 333 MHz 'puter that I'm trying to get up and running >>for [EMAIL PROTECTED] with an old copy of NT4 I picked up locally. The >>original 1997 hardrive died and I replaced it with a Promise ATA100 >>controller and a WD 800JB. NT won't install despite repeated efforts >>even on a <8 gig C: partition. It partitions Drive C just fine but >>chokes on the total size of the drive and won't go any further (neither >>NTFS or FAT file system makes any difference). I looked for a method of >>slipstreaming SP6 into it thinking that would upgrade it's ability to >>deal with modern sized disks but apparently that's not possible >>pre-Win2K. Does anybody have any ideas on how I might get this old OS >>installed on this old PC with a modern drive so I can give it a new >>reason to live? Hate to spend $ on the overpriced WinXP if I can help >>it. TIA and Happy Thanksgiving! @:)> -- JRS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Please remove **X** to reply... Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored.
