NT 4 can't see FAT32 partitions, at least not without a patch, I think you
can get it from www.ntsolutions.net..
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Naresh Nayak wrote:
> i have a 19.2G Bigfoot HD and am having problems installing both NT and
> linux on it. linux installs without any problems, but NT seems to dislike
> the drive size. these are my intended partitions
>
> 2G NT
> 3G WIN32
> 4G WIN32
> 5G WIN32
> -----
> 2G LINUX
> 16M SWAP
> 2G LINUX
>
> when i try installing NT4.0 with those partitions it says my partition is
> damaged and that it cannot format it.
>
> so i created just one 2G partition and left the remaining 16G as an
> extended partition with no logical drives and i did mange to install NT
> and everything worked fine.
>
> but when i broke the extended partition into the one above NT wouldnt boot
> anymore. it crashes at boot-time with the usual bunch of hex numbers.
>
> i did try using fdisk during the linux installation to break my drive down
> into 3 primary partitions and 1 extended partition (since fdisk in dos
> doesnt let you create more than 1 primary partition) but it gave me the
> same error saying the drive was damaged and couldnt be formatted.
>
> any suggestions to fix this or even to let me know that it cannot be
> fixed would be greatly appreciated.
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