Jim,
I'm assuming that the partition that you are trying to install NT on is
either at the start of the drive, or there are less than 4Gb of
partitions between the start of the drive and the beginning of the
partition you are trying to install NT onto. If that is not the case,
you would get the partition formatted and all the files copied to it,
but when you try and boot NT from that partition, you would get a
"Missing signature AA55" error message. Unfortunately, this is a
complete show stopper, because the partition has to start less than 4Gb
into the drive.
As to not being able to get the partition to format, I think it's
probably down to the partition type being used. FAT is a bit weird in
that it can actually support partitions of up to 4Gb in size, but
doesn't allow you to use them, once they are formatted, for "real-life"
applications.
NT uses this facility to create partitions up to 4Gb in size. On the
downside for NT, this is the largest partition that the setup program
can create, because it has to create a FAT partition and either install
on that, or convert it to NTFS later on during setup.
I used partition type e, which is the Windows 95 FAT 16 (LBA) type. It
seems to be able to create the partition absolutely correctly for sizes
<2Gb, but beyond that, NT proclaims that the partition is "Damaged or
unformatted", probably because FDISK isn't entirely comfortable writing
a partition using 64Kb clusters.
I'd be interested to know how you get on with this one: keep me
posted...
Later,
Alan.
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