NT only recognises 3 partitions on setup

[TdM]

Hi,

I am trying to multiboot about 10 different languages of NT4 on one 80GB drive...

the trouble is although I can install 3 of these on different partitions the next install I try to do setup doesn't recognise any more partitions.

I understand that NT can only support 4 primary partitions so I tried creating a big extended partition and filling it with logical drives and using these but setup doesn't recognise them..

does anyone have any ideas how to get round this problem?

[HAL9000]

Ya, do one installation and create only one partition to begin with. Then use disk administrator in NT to create the rest of your partitions.

[homey]

Hi,

You may be running into the 1024 cylinder limit (about 8GB) for NT4. The legacy systems weren't designed to handle huge drives because they didn't exist. Maybe you would have better luck with two smaller drives.

[TdM]

Hi Hal,

This is how I did do things however once you try to carry out the next installation on the partition that you have just created it will do it right 3 times but then you can't see any more partitions in the setup no matter how many disk administrator say there are

[DFastLane]

You probably need more physical disks, since you are only allowed 4 primary partitions on each one. For 10 separate OS installs, you would need 3 HDD.