BlueScreen of Death on Installation of NT4.0 1

[useractive]

I'm installing NT4.0 from scratch on a server and upon installation I get the infamous "BlueScreen of Death" - Inaccessible_boot_device

CPUID - Geniuneintel 6.5.0

bla bla bla

Bunch of code followed by NTOSKNRL.EXE

Any ideas on how to get past this stuff on the installation.

Thanks.

 

[Meldrew]

Hi

Do you have the stop message details before the Inaccessible_boot_device

For example something like STOP 0x0000007B

Regards

Meldrew

 

[djhawthorn]

How big is your boot partition? MCSE NT4/W2K

 

[useractive]

Message is STOP 0x0000007B (0xF2813BD4m, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) Inaccessible_Boot_device

6 Gig Boot Partion.

 

[Meldrew]

Try creating just a boot partition of 4 Gb

Meldrew

 

[meastaugh1]

Isn't the max boot partition for NT supposed to be 2gb, no?

 

[useractive]

I think NTFS is 4, and FAT is 2. I think I've found the problem though. It seems the company that installed it the first time didn't leave the disk for the SCSI card adapters information. It seems to error out everytime it tries to read the CD-ROM during installation. They are supposed to contact me about it.

Thanks for the help.

 

[djhawthorn]

NTFS is 7.8GB. FAT is 2GBs.

The NT Installer won't handle formatting much larger than 4GBs though, and I think you may need SP5 or later to support NTFSv5 (which allows for the larger boot partition size). MCSE NT4/W2K

 

[OzDog]

Quickie on boot partitions - the max size for an NTFS boot partition is 7.8Gb, as you correctly said, but the FAT is 4096MB - exactly 4 Gigabytes.

The reason that install only allows 4096MB regardless of the FS you select is because it formats as FAT first, then later in the install converts to NTFS.

If you format the drive in another machine, you can go to 7.8GB. Cheers,
Sam

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[djhawthorn]

Err, won't NT Setup complain that "I can't format this partition because it is too large" if you try and format a 4GB FAT partition?

I always use NTFS, so I don't quite remember. MCSE NT4/W2K