maximum drive capacity for nt

[cryos6]

what's the maximum drive capacity that winnt can read.

[104456]

Max boot partition with SP4 7.8-8Gb without its 4GB NTFS ONLY.
Installing Windows NT on a Large IDE Hard Disk
Windows NT 4.0 Supports Maximum of 7.8-GB System Partition
I think the Max drive size is in the terabyte range but I'm not completely sure.

Windows NT Fault Tolerant Volumes
Through the use of volume sets and stripe sets, Windows NT and Windows NT Advanced Server permit the construction of logical volumes from multiple physical disk partitions. This technique permits Windows NT to overcome the physical hardware limitations imposed by various disk controllers and construct a logical volume larger than a single disk can support by itself.

NOTE: A logical volume is constructed to look just like a physical disk partition and it still must conform to the partition table layout described above. This means that a fault tolerant construct, such as a volume set, must have no more than a total of 2^32 sectors (or 2 terabytes at 512 bytes per sector).

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;114841

[cryos6]

thanx.

i asked this because a friend of mine tried to add a 40g hardrive(fat32) to a winnt(dont know which sp). wonder why it could not detect the disk. but in true dos mode(boot from win98bootdisk), we could access the drive.

[104456]

I dont use NT myself but you could try the inbuiltWINMSD tool and see if it will give you any help resolving the problem.

As an add on to that:
Administrative Tools - Includes User Manager, Backup, Performance Monitor, and Disk Administrator.

[Rapmaster]

Windows NT 4 cannot read FAT32

It can read FAT16 and the old version of NTFS. FAT32 is just a little bit too new for it.

And FAT16 can only be 2 or 4gigs at most.... depending on version of Windows


So he'll probably want to use NTFS on that drive. However, if he converts it using Windows 2000 or XP, it won't be fully compatible since those OSes use a newer version of NTFS. (NT uses NTFS4 while 2000/XP use NTFS5)

Your best bet is to either upgrade to Windows 2000 or XP, or reformat the drive in Windows NT and split it up into several NTFS partitions

[104456]

Doh! Its always the simple things in life that catch you out

[SLiC]

Sysinternals has a FAT32 driver for Windows NT that will allow it access FAT32 partitions. It is called "FAT32 for Windows NT 4.0 1.01". It can be found here:

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/fat32.shtml

[SMS Avenger]

I just thought I'd mention this: nt4 can actually boot to a large partition like 30 gigs fine. and for the longest time we never had any problems. but nt4 can only read the first 7.8 gigs of the hard drive while it is booting, so if it needs a certain file to boot, and that file somehow got moved out of the first 7.8 gigs of the hard drive, then you are screwed.