NT 4.0 Partition Resize?

[zeroomegazx]

As many of you are aware, NT 4.0 had the 4GB partition limit for the main partition. We are looking at upgrading our network to 2003 as my other topics indicate, and I our primary server atm is NT 4.0 with a 1GB main partition. I was wondering if anyone has successfully resized a main NT 4.0 partition to 4GB or PAST the 4GB limit and had success on it booting. That way we can much more easily upgrade to 2003 than mess with 3 or 4 other servers. Any help you can give me out be great!

[+BudMan MVC]

You would be much better off installing 2k3 from scratch vs an upgrade..

The limit is 7.8 gig -- not 4

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...B;en-us;q224526

Windows NT 4.0 supports maximum of 7.8-GB system partition

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/119497/EN-US/

Boot Partition Created During Setup Limited to 4 Gigabytes

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/197667/EN-US/

Installing Windows NT on a Large IDE Hard Disk

You should be able to resize your part up to the 7.8 limit, an be ok -- have not tested this.. But should be easy enough to test with a spare hard drive an clean install of nt4, etc. Before you do it on your production system.

But I would suggest again that you look into a clean install vs upgrading from nt4

[zeroomegazx]

  BudMan said:

You would be much better off installing 2k3 from scratch vs an upgrade..

The limit is 7.8 gig -- not 4

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...B;en-us;q224526

Windows NT 4.0 supports maximum of 7.8-GB system partition

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/119497/EN-US/

Boot Partition Created During Setup Limited to 4 Gigabytes

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/197667/EN-US/

Installing Windows NT on a Large IDE Hard Disk

You should be able to resize your part up to the 7.8 limit, an be ok -- have not tested this.. But should be easy enough to test with a spare hard drive an clean install of nt4, etc. Before you do it on your production system.

But I would suggest again that you look into a clean install vs upgrading from nt4

well unfortunately we don't have many spare machines for testing or upgrading. We have a NEW server that will eventually be the primary domain controller, but many old files/shares run from the older NT 4.0 machine. If we were able to keep that in place with the mappings for a bit while I work on login scripts, upgrade the domain to 2k3, and then switch roles from the old controller to the new, would be better for us I hope heh. I'll give it a try though. Thanks a bunch for the help!