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What size boot partitions can Server Assistant create for Windows NT and Windows 2000?

April 26, 2017Assistant boot create NT partitions server size Windows

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What size boot partitions can Server Assistant create for Windows NT and Windows 2000?

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Server Assistant can create a bootable FAT partition up to 4 GB. Because Server Assistant is based on embedded Windows NT version 4.0, this FAT partition is always FAT16, not FAT32. Server Assistant can create a bootable NTFS partition of up to 7.8 GB for Windows NT, which displays as 8 GB on the GUI slider. This limit is inherent, based on the Windows NT operating system loader. A manual Windows NT installation can only create a 4-GB NTFS partition because the manual installation always creates a FAT partition, and then converts it to NTFS. Server Assistant creates an NTFS partition directly and, therefore, can create the maximum size partition recognized by the operating system loader. Server Assistant can create an NTFS boot partition up to the size of the disk with Windows 2000.