NT 4.0 Won't Install

[Heathren]

I'm having trouble installing NT 4.0 (build 1381) from the CD to a Shuttle
AK32 motherboard with a Western Digital HDD. It's the only HDD and is a
100Gig with an Ultra-ATA controller onboard the mobo. The installer says it
(only) sees the mass storage device of the IDE CD-ROM during initial
installation, and then does see the HDD later in the installation. I can
only get as far as trying to format the HDD (partitioning works fine) at
which point I get an error message that installation cannot continue because
the HDD is too large. I've tried repartitioning to smaller sizes with the
same result, eventually getting an error message that says the partition is
too small. The access options for this HDD in the bios are CHA, LBA, LARGE
and AUTO, none of which seems to make any difference. I've tried formatting
with NTFS and FAT but neither will get past the Drive Too Large error
message. Any ideas?

[George Weisz]

Heathren wrote:
I'm having trouble installing NT 4.0 (build 1381) from the CD to a Shuttle AK32 motherboard with a Western Digital HDD. It's the only HDD and is a 100Gig with an Ultra-ATA controller onboard the mobo. The installer says it (only) sees the mass storage device of the IDE CD-ROM during initial installation, and then does see the HDD later in the installation. I can only get as far as trying to format the HDD (partitioning works fine) at which point I get an error message that installation cannot continue because the HDD is too large. I've tried repartitioning to smaller sizes with the same result, eventually getting an error message that says the partition is too small. The access options for this HDD in the bios are CHA, LBA, LARGE and AUTO, none of which seems to make any difference. I've tried formatting with NTFS and FAT but neither will get past the Drive Too Large error message. Any ideas?

Check out Q197667 on MS site
Good luck
George

[Heathren]

"George Weisz" <gwsys@attglobal.net> wrote in message
news:3F874041.80C3FA07@attglobal.INVALID... Heathren wrote: I'm having trouble installing NT 4.0 (build 1381) from the CD to a
Shuttle AK32 motherboard with a Western Digital HDD. It's the only HDD and is a 100Gig with an Ultra-ATA controller onboard the mobo. The installer says
it (only) sees the mass storage device of the IDE CD-ROM during initial installation, and then does see the HDD later in the installation. I can only get as far as trying to format the HDD (partitioning works fine) at which point I get an error message that installation cannot continue
because the HDD is too large. I've tried repartitioning to smaller sizes with
the same result, eventually getting an error message that says the partition
is too small. The access options for this HDD in the bios are CHA, LBA,
LARGE and AUTO, none of which seems to make any difference. I've tried
formatting with NTFS and FAT but neither will get past the Drive Too Large error message. Any ideas? Check out Q197667 on MS site Good luck George

Thanks, that appears to answer my questions. I searched for an appropriate
paper describing my problem, but obviously my search criteria weren't valid.
Thanks again.