NTFS Problem

[blkimbro]

I was wondering if you have ever experience problems booting up your system while using Windows NT having your C:\ drive being NTFS partition and your D:\ fat. I know what the problem is, but I don't know how to fix it. What happens is when I boot up my system, I just get a blinking cursor in the upper left hand side of the pc with no error message. I have created a NT bootable floppy disk that has all the bootable files on it and when I boot up with this disk, I can get into my system. Do you know of a way to keep the boot sector in the front of a NTFS partition?.
Thanks,
-bk

[ski]

For a dual boot setup with Win NT, you must install the personal O/S(Win 98, 98SE, ME) on the first partition using FAT 16. FAT 32 will not work in a dual boot environment with NT.
Then install Win NT on the 2nd partition. If you install NT first, then the personal O/S installation will wipe out the boot files for NT.

[blkimbro]

Originally posted by blkimbro:
I was wondering if you have ever experience problems booting up your system while using Windows NT having your C:\ drive being NTFS partition and your D:\ fat. I know what the problem is, but I don't know how to fix it. What happens is when I boot up my system, I just get a blinking cursor in the upper left hand side of the pc with no error message. I have created a NT bootable floppy disk that has all the bootable files on it and when I boot up with this disk, I can get into my system. Do you know of a way to keep the boot sector in the front of a NTFS partition?.
Thanks,
-bk



This is a single partition not a dual partition. I am trying to keep the bootable file in the front of the partition so that it can boot up.
Thanks,
-bk

[ski]

Sorry, I misread your initial post.
Try installing FAT on the C partition and NTFS on D.