Installing NT on a partition

[y2kman]

Sorry I did not see any links to continue my thread but only to start a new topic.

I should have mentioned first that I am using an Eval NT CD. It won't self-boot. During the installation [using the boot disk] a screen comes up and says..."setup is unable to locate the hard drive partition prepared by the MS-DOS portion of setup. When you run the MS-DOS Windows NT setuo program, you must specify a temporary drive that is supported by Windows NT. Setup cannot continue.
Then the only option is F3 Exit.

Again I have FAT16 partitions. C:\2047MB D:\2047 E:\2047 etc... Windows98 is on C:\ The other partitions are empty but they all have DOS partitions becuz I typed format ?:/s [?= drive letter] It's a PIII 500MHz 128MBRAM.

Thanks again

[mairving]

Which partition do you plan to put NT on and do you have anything else installed on the other partitons?

The reason that I ask is that it is often times easier to delete the other partitions, D & E, and let NT form it's own partitions during setup. You may have noticed that there is no NT version of FDisk. It sounds like you have a hard drive larger than 8GB and a version of NT 4.0 without service pack 3. If this is the case it can't be installed properly.

Here is the remedy that I have taken in the past to remedy this.
(1.) Delete all the partitions except for C: which has Windows 98 on it.
(2.) Start NT setup, let it create it's own partition of 2GB (D:).
(3.) Install NT on this partition.
(4.) Once NT is running, install service pack 3 or greater.
(5.) Open Disk Administrator in NT and set-up the rest of your partitions.