Installing NT from CD-ROM, Part 2

Installation, part 1
Boot the computer from the first floppy disk. Let the setup program detect your system configuration, and just use the defaults that it comes up with. When it asks you where to install Windows NT, delete each partition on the disk, and then create a new partition that fills the whole disk. Choose the option to reformat the disk, and choose NTFS.

Note: the Windows NT Disk Administrator program can be used to reformat a disk to NTFS. It does not work -- Windows NT setup will need to reformat the disk anyway, so don't waste time with Disk Administrator!

You can probably skip the "exhaustive" disk examination, especially since you have just formatted the disk! The setup program will copy file to the hard disk and then reboot in the graphical NT setup program.

Links into Microsoft's Windows NT Server & Workstation 4.0 Frequently Asked Questions:

Links into IBM's Thinkpad Support page:


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