I'm trying to install NT on IBM Thinkpad 600E with a 60 gb hd for a friend. I keep getting message saying " setup cannot format the partion. C: New (Unformatted) 57217 MB on 8063 MB Disk 0 at Id 0 on bus ) on atapi because it is too large". When I go back to Nt Workstation setup to create partion unable to do it. No floppy, only cd drive. Please any help would be appreciated. Thank U.

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You may check this for yourself, but I think the maximum size that windows setup will allow for a FAT32 partition is 32GB. Either use the NTFS system, or make a sensible size for the windows partition of about 8 -10GB, and a second, third partition for data. OR you could format it with a third party software.... windows setup will then cope with it even if larger than 32GB..

It's only 4Gb. :(

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