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Bobo

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I installed Windows NT 4.0 on an 80GB HDD, but because I had read somewhere that NT can only read 4GB partitions, I made 2 and installed NT on the one. But that means that I have 68GB of wasted space. Is there any way that I can get NT to see this space without making 17 more 4GB partitions?
 
Are you making the partitions FAT or FAT32? Because I believe that Windows NT 4.0 does suppoft FAT32, and that file system supports a hard drive up to 2TB.
 
NT doesn't specify whether it is FAT or FAT32, so I assume it is just FAT. The system drive is NTFS.

And the problem is not what the file system supports, it is what NT can see. It couldn't see the 80GB HDD until I made the 4GB partitions on it from XP.
 
Wait, so are you saying that you tried using an NTFS partition with NT? Try creating a 4GB+ partition using FAT32 and see if it will recognize it.
 
[-0MEGA-] said:
Wait, so are you saying that you tried using an NTFS partition with NT? Try creating a 4GB+ partition using FAT32 and see if it will recognize it.
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NTFS=NT File System. It was created by NT.

But I'll try that.

*edit* XP won't let me format the 68GB using FAT32, I'm going to have to do it differently
 
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OK, so the 4GB was the FAT limitation. The 7.8GB limitation shouldn't apply to me because the larger ones aren't the system drive.

I was able to get NT to see the rest of the HDD space by formatting them using NTFS, so I am good now.

Thanks

Tim
 
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