How can I partition my harddrive?

[smatsuur]

I bought Win98 pre-installed Compaq PC last month. Since I need to install Win NT 4.0, I want to partition my harddrive. However, Partition commander did not work with it. Are there any other ways to create partition onto my harddrive? The size of the harddrive is 12g and it is formatted as FAT32.

[Wan2See]

Get a MSDOS boot disk (Win95/98) w/ CD drivers, let the bootdisk load without cd rom support at this point. type FDISK create your partitions, reboot format the drive then install the OS, I would recomend a 2 gig partition for your OS load.

service Pack 4 for NT 4 is the only Y2K compliant service pack.

Good luck

Tony

[Bleeding Edge]

NT doesn't support FAT32.

When NT loads a "mini NT" loads first on a Fat16 then it does a memory dump to NTSF; if that is the file system you choose to use.

Therefore, you have to first FDISK the drive to delete all partitions, logical; extended and primary.
(Since you didn't mention dual booting I'm assuming your installing NT By itself.)
Then re-create your partitions and
divide the drive the way you want. NT seems to like a 4gig partition for as its boot drive.

Install from the first of the 3 floppies and NT will format the drive it will install itself to. The rest of the partitions need to be formated after NT is up and running from within the OS.