dual booting nt4 and win xp on separate drives 1

[Essexboy]

Hello all

I have 2 separate drives ide-0 (c) ntfs 40 gig Win XP
and ide-1 (d) ntfs win nt4.0

when i boot up from the nt4 cd i see the xp partition and i can set the partition sizes on the D drive but when i select the d drive to install nt4 it displays an error saying that the c drive is to big how do i force it to install on the d drive

1, do i disable ide-0 thro the bios
2, do i disconnect ide-0 and then boot up?

can anybody help me

thanks

Brett

 

[thatrenowned]

I think the problem is that when NT installs, it puts a boot.ini on your C drive. Since your C drive is 40 gig and NT only understands something like 2 gig during install, this is where the problem is.
If you disconnect the other hard-disk, install NT and then reconnect the other disk again, it won't bring up the option to boot into NT as the boot.ini will be on the D drive hence it won't read at startup (longest sentence ever).
I'm not sure how to get around this just yet...if I think of anything, I'll post it.

 

[bgauntt]

Use Partition Magic to set up your partition according to what OS you want on each partition, then install the OS accordingly.

 

[Ecaboodle]

I think that NT will only install on a 2GB volume!!

The way I would set it up would 2GB for NT, 4GB for XP and the rest the pair of them can share as a data volume!! If you can't fix it in 20 call someone who can.

 

[bgauntt]

I was checking the Microsoft site about hard drive space settings for NT and from what I gathered in this article it should not be a problem to load or dedicate more space for the NT partition. You may want to check this article out.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q114841

 

[Essexboy]

Thanks to everybody i think that i will do the following:-

I think that i will dis-connect the 40gig hard drive and then boot the system up with only the 26 gig hard drive then install nt 4.0 on it after installation i will re-connect the 40 gig hard drive and then i will have to decide in bios which to boot to ide0 or ide 1