>>I tried to install NT Server 4.0 in my computer after I got new hard drive of 10.2 GB. It failed after giving the message that said somenting about the boot signature not matching. I tried several times and failed as before. Then according to the advise of a friend of mine I left out some part of the hard drive ( did not partition it ) and then the installation worked. What was wrong ?
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>>This is the first time I am writing to this site. One of my firend told me about this. But when I became member of this site they did not have any flag from my country Bangladesh. I had to choose Idian flag. I hate to see Indian flag by the side of my name. I want my country's flag by name. Please give me info regarding this.
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>There is normal limit of 4GB for a boot drive on NT. MS KB article Q114841 shows a workaround to bump that up to 7.8 GB but that still falls short of you 10.2 GB drive.
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>FWIW, I always create a small partition 500MB to 1 GB for installation and then format the rest of drive as NTFS. I only add NT to the boot partition (no other applications).

I disagree with this approach unless all you're doing is putting the system partition (where the NT loader resides) and minimal boot files on the small partition and then using the remainer as the boot partition (where NT itself resides) since you must have a minimal size swap file on the boot partition, and you're slightly better off putting that at a fixed size on a FAT partition. You end up hurting yourself having swap files allocated from multiple logical drives on a single physicial drive, and there are consequences for growing the registry if you underallocate a boot partition and fragment the registry and swap file spaces. OTOH, I'm also a sick puppy who tends to allocate a logical drive just for swap space on multiple physical drives....