NT installation it went totaly crasy

[skywalker[TSG]]

hmm when i tried to install win NT server 4 on my PC it was totaly clean i only had win 98 on it and in the setup progg it said i could not complete the instalation because it couldnt find the partition for win NT i have 3 FAT patitions on the comp so i dont understand that and when i rebooted after the unsucsesfull instalation when searching fot the boot record i get this message
BOOT: couldn´t find NTLDR
please insert another disk

why does it do this

and i cant get in to win 98 again either even if i use a win 98 bootdisc

[Susan]

Any time you want to get into win, just use FDisk /MBR. That should get you there.

Did you FDisk your whole disk to large disk support? That's Fat32, which NT cannot read.

[This message has been edited by Susan (edited 06-24-99).]

[skywalker[TSG]]

nope no fat 32

and well it totaly died on my today after 6hours work i got the comp to boot but now it says that the HD is corrupt and that there are cluster errors etc. why is this i know that the HD is working it so wierd

[Susan]

I never figured out why, but NT completely disabled a Syjet disk of mine, which was running perfectly for some time. It wasn't until I remove NT that I was able get the disk running again.

Must be how NT see's the HD info from BIOS???

The only thing I can think is to try changing your BIOS HD info and see if that helps.

I'm not that adept in NT, sorry. Anyone?

[skywalker[TSG]]

well i dont have NT on the comp anymore i have win 98 and when i boot it says that their are damaged clusters on the HD and when DOS starts scandisk it freeses

[Susan]

Doesn't sound good for your drive http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif

Couple of things...I once had a BIOS disable and destoy the data on my HD because the BIOS needed to be updated. See if your MB has a BIOS update for setting the correct HD parameters.

And, at this point, you may need to get the low-level format utility from the mfg. of the HD to repair the drive. Is that drive under warrantee by any chance? It could be going.

[skywalker[TSG]]

well the drive is brand new so i do have a warranty on it im going to take it to the place i got it tomorrow because this sound wierd

[sourjon]

NT needs an "active" DOS partition to install. Since you already have 98 on the active partition NT cannot find a place to install. Oh I just reread your post and you said no FAT32. Are you absolutely sure? Run fdisk and select option 4 to display partition information to be sure. Look for the A that marks the active partition.

[This message has been edited by sourjon (edited 07-02-99).]

[skywalker[TSG]]

well the ****ing drive was dead thats why NT would not install