SunPCi 1.1 Hard Disks

This section discusses some of the properties of hard drives running under Windows NT. For more information about the drives, refer to the Windows NT documentation on the Windows NT 4.0 Workstation CD-ROM. The chapters of the books are in Microsoft Word format.

Do not partition your C: drive. You can create some C: drives to run Windows NT and others to run Windows 95, as described in Installing Windows NT Workstation 4.0.

FAT versus NTFS Hard Disks

FAT and NTFS are file system formats used with Windows hard disks. If you are planning to run a D: drive on Windows NT, you may want to set it up as an NTFS drive. NTFS (NT File System) drives work more quickly under Windows NT.

The Microsoft NT Workstation Start Here manual (the hard copy manual included in your Windows NT installation package) discusses the differences between FAT and NTFS. It also discusses the conversion process, how to use Disk Administrator to convert FAT disks to NTFS, and the convert function.

Converting a FAT Disk to NTFS

If you have an emulated drive (such as drive D:) in FAT format and you want to convert it to NTFS, use the Disk Administrator function in Windows NT to perform the conversion. Do not use the convert function from the C:\ command line to convert your D: drive.

To convert a C: drive, use the following command at the Windows NT Command Prompt:

C:\> convert C: /fs:ntfs

“Dual Boot” Drives

If you want to “dual-boot” SunPCi software with both Windows NT and Windows 95, simply create another C: drive. When you want to run Windows 95, use the Attach Hard Disk command under the Options menu to select the C: drive file with Windows 95 on it, and then reset SunPCi. If you want to run Windows NT, use Attach Hard Disk to select the C: drive with Windows NT installed, and then reset SunPCi.