Hi Suresh,
You may have to give us some more info about exactly where everything fails. You
have of course I presumed checked the obvious things like drive master/slave
jumpers correct cables in use (don't forget ATAPI UDMA cables are not
bi-directional, the connectors are usually marked or colour coded as to which is
the 'motherboard', which is the 'salve' and which is the 'master')
How are you doing the install - booting from the CD or using the 3 startup
floppies and the CD ?
A few other notes:
I would actually come down to 2GB for your Boot Partition (ie: the one that has
the \WinNT folder on it)
If it is larger than 2GB then it will have been created with 'non-standard' 64k
clusters, which may cause you real problems in the future.
My suggested layout:
Primary Partition
C: - System Partition >32MB and < 2GB - this one basically will only have
ntdetect.com, ntldr. and boot.ini on it for NT startup. On my machine I have a
copy of DOS installed here too, so that I can boot back into good 'ol 16 bit DOS
if required.
Extended partition taking up the rest of the disk space
Logical drives within the partition:
D: - Boot Partition any size you like up to a max size that it and drive C: will
fit inside the 7.8GB boundary. If bigger than 2GB will have to be formatted NTFS
- I recommend a NTFS format here anyway for improved security
rest of the space on the extended partit9on as logical drives of any size how
you see fit.
I suggest installing applications in a partition OTHER than D: - it makes life a
lot easier trying to sort out what belongs to the OS and what is clutter created
by applications if the apps live on a separate drive.
I also recommend a separate 'data' partition where all your files (wordprocessor
docs, spreadsheets, mail etc...) can be stored. Separating the data away from
the apps makes it simpler come time to do backups.
Calvin.