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The size of a Windows NT boot partition is limited to a maximum capacity of 2GB
(this is a Windows NT restriction).
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In some cases Windows NT checks the virtual geometric parameters (heads, sectors)
of the ICP Controller BIOS Host Drives during the installation process. This can cause Win-
dows NT to calculate wrong parameters. In this case, the first part of the installation proce-
dure (text mode) seems to work fine, but after the first warm boot the installation
terminates irregularly because the Windows NT boot loader is no longer available.
To avoid this problem (which will inevitably occur with Host Drives larger than or equal to
1GB), we recommend that you first re-create the so-called
master boot record
(MBR) of the
given Host Drive, and secondly, to prepare the Host Drive with a little program named
NTPREP for the Windows NT installation. NTPREP.EXE is part of the GDT Windows NT disk.
FDISK /MBR <ENTER>
and
NTPREP <ENTER>
GDTSETUP includes an option that makes both, FDISK /MBR and NTPREP.
Select the
Configure Host Drives
menu and then
Overwr. Master Boot Code
.
You should never use
Overwr. Master Boot Code or FDISK /MBR and NTRPEP when the
Host Drives already contains valid data.
