Qwemliis,

Just a few reasonings behind my previous posting and replies to your post:

1) The reason I suggested the NT then Win98 install order was that Win98 is NT aware and so adds itself to the NT boot menu (with the correct description not just MS-DOS!) and leaves the boot sector intact...

2) The main reason for suggesting the use of the boot floppies for installing the NT is that, although you have to swap the floppies in and out several times, this approach allows extra drivers (like the SP4 IDE driver for large HD support) to be used more easily...Also, after the initial delay with he floppies, I've never found the file copying process to be any slower than installing from Win98...

3) I know NT can use FAT16 partitions upto 4GB because of its larger cluster size...However, this has nothing to do with the limitations of the NT install program (which probably includes legacy rubish from the NT3.51 days!) when making NTFS partitions larger than 2GB...Try getting it to install into unpartioned space larger 2GB even selecting NTFS as the format...It won't like it one bit...As I said before the install program appears to create a non-NT FAT16 partition and then convert it to NTFS...and so it wont let you create an NTFS partion larger than 2GB...

4) Making the NT partion bigger with a partioning tool is in fact a more efficient way to run NT because of the way the NTFS works...Its always better to have one large partion than several smaller ones under this particular file system...