jods

Oi Oi,

Trying to end up with a FAT partition and an NTFS partition on a NT 4 Server.
(Machine has two physical disks. My target is on 2nd Disk NOT Primary)

Gone into Disk Administrator and have seen two NTFS partitions of approx 4GB each.

Deleted the partition relating to the empty logical drive
Committed Change
Assigned Drive Letter

Now right click and FORMAT
Selected FAT rather than NTFS and get msg back saying
"Windows NT is unable to complete the format"
It doesn't even start.
It is happy enough to format as NTFS but NOT as FAT ?

The disk is split into two partitions and I am trying to change the first of these.

Any ideas ??

Cheers

Jods

HHxx

Fat16 supports upto 2GB normally. You can "frig" it to do more but not recommended.

Nt4 didn't support Fat32 natively.

H

jods

You little Beauty !!

Split the 4 Gig into 2 roughly equal chunks - Formatting like a dream now.

All I have to sort out now is getting Ghost to work taking a NTFS partition onto my new FAT16 Partion.

jods

The phrase I am thinking rhymes with "Clucking Bell"

The version of Ghost I am running (Symantec 7.0) requires a destination to be FAT32.

"NT4 doesn't support FAT32 Natively"

WHY is nowt ever straightforward ??

Surely I am NOT the only person out of 6 Billion people on earth who wants to Ghost from NTFS to FAT32 on an NT4 Server using Ghost 7.0 ?????

Arrghhhhh

HHxx

Why are you ghosting the disk?

Are you ghosting to an image file or just mirroring the disk?

If you are just mirroring it, then don't mess about with partitions, it can Ghost to a ntfs partition.

Or if you want to Ghost to an image file, just do it across the network.

H

jods

Hi HHxx

When running Ghost on the NT4 Server I only see the A: floppy drive as a destination for an Image.

I want to be able to ghost NT 4 Server to Win 98 Machine and vice Versa.

This is a standalone test network. Two PC's - One running Windows 98 t'other NT 4 Server. The 98 pc ghosts fine - although the image is on a logical drive partition cos that machine only has one disk.

HHxx

Create the network boot floppy with Ghost on configured for the network card. Run the Ghost server on the 98 (not sure if this works). That should allow you to do a network image?

H