Microsoft KB Archive/137474

= Cannot Create Partition Greater than 1 GB during NT setup =

Article ID: 137474

Article Last Modified on 2/22/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.5
 * Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.51
 * Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5
 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51
 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q137474





SYMPTOMS
When you attempt to install Windows NT on a computer with some SCSI controllers, using two or more drives containing free space, Windows NT does not allow creation of partition sizes larger than 1 gigabyte (GB).



CAUSE
The text mode setup restricts Partition0 on the first disk to 1024 cylinders - if there are no partitions, partition0 is the free space on the drive, so the drive appears in the listing limited to 1024 cylinders non- translated.



WORKAROUND
If you create a partition during setup, reboot and delete it, the same check is not performed again, so the size of the partition (Partition0) is added onto the free disk space and you can make a partition that spans the whole drive up to 4GB or 1024 cylinders worth of data which ever is less.

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Using MS-DOS, create a partition using FDISK. During NT Setup, delete the partition created with MS-DOS. This will allow Windows NT Setup to create a system partition larger than 1 GB, but limited 4 GB or 1024 cylinders worth of data which ever is less.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT versions 3.5 3.51, and 4.0. We are researching this problem and will post new information here as it becomes available.

Keywords: kbsetup KB137474

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