>I am having the same problem...but I got my 4 gig NTFS drive...but cannot get expand volume set to activate. What should I have highlighted?

Please read my message to Paul, where I clarify things a bit.

The primary partition where the boot sector and loader reside must fall within the 4GB limit; this is technically the system partition in NT-speak. The NT operating system itself resides on the boot partition, which need not be the same partition (it need not even be a primary partition), and if the boot partition where NT resides is not also the system aprtition, it can be an NTFS volume or volume set of nearly any size. In your case, both the system partition and the boot partition are the same, so you are bitten by the 4GB limit as you note.

If you want a large boot partition, the trick is to create a single, relatively small primary partition where the boot sector and loader will reside. A small FAT16 partition created with DOS will be more than adequate. Create an extended partition out of the remainder of the drive, and allocate that as a single NTFS partition; you can then make that your boot partition where NT resides. The small system partition need not be visible after the boot process; you can change it's logical drive letter assignment with Disk Administrator. Because BOOT.INI resides there, make sure that it is assigned -some- drive letter, since you may want to edit BOOT.INI to alter loading processes.

If this isn't clear, please let me know.

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>I did create a 9 gig partition with Partition Magic Version 4, from DOS, but NT said it did not like it and would need to reformat it...but could not, because it was over 4 gig!!!
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>Hey Novell, wake up!
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>>>Hi,
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>>>I am new to NT, I had a 6.4G of hardisk space which I hope to convert from FAT16 to NTFS. I had tried to use disk administrator without any successful in converting the current 2G of FAT16 to 6.4G of NTFS diskspace.
>>>Unless I use partition magic to do. Did I miss out any thing, please advise how can I change it from 2G of FAT16 to 6.4G of NTFS. Thank in advance.
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>>Your boot partition under NT cannot be larger than 4GB; it's a limitation of the loader, even though NTFS will support huge partition sizes. You can convert your existing partition from FAT to NTFS using the NT command line utility CONVERT; to change to NTFS, enter the command:
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>>CONVERT C: /FS:NTFS
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>>You'll need to reboot after running CONVERT. Once the drive is converted to NTFS, you can expand it by creating a Volume Set using the Disk Administrator tool. Your system partition is limited to a 4GB size, For details on alternatives in allocating disk space, you might want to check John Savill's NT FAQ
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>>Partition Magic will allow you to make a contiguous, single NTFS volume of maximum supportable size without the need to create a volume set.