{"id":202,"date":"2004-10-21T05:40:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-21T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/windows-nt-wont-boot-from-a-partition-that-starts-more-than-2gb-into-the-disk\/"},"modified":"2021-09-07T15:33:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T22:33:05","slug":"windows-nt-wont-boot-from-a-partition-that-starts-more-than-2gb-into-the-disk","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/windows-nt-wont-boot-from-a-partition-that-starts-more-than-2gb-into-the-disk\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows NT won&#8217;t Boot from a Partition that Starts More Than 2GB into the Disk."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows NT will normally lock up if you attempt to boot it from a FAT partition that starts more than 2GB into the disk.&nbsp; Using BootIt BM, you'll be able to boot NT from above 2GB on most systems.&nbsp; There are some system BIOS\/Disk configurations which will still prevent NT from being booted above 2GB.&nbsp; Under those systems, you'll receive an &quot;NTDETECT failed&quot; error message.&nbsp; <\/p>\r\n  <p>Additionally, if you're attempting to boot Windows NT from a partition above 8GB on the disk,&nbsp;you may receive only a flashing cursor in the upper-left corner of the screen.<\/p>\r\n  <p>For addtional information see:<\/p>\r\n  <p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/support\/kb\/articles\/Q197\/2\/95.ASP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Q197295 - Windows NT Does Not Boot to a Partition That Starts More Than 4 GB into Disk<\/a> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows NT will normally lock up if you attempt to boot it from a FAT partition that starts more than 2GB into the disk.&nbsp; Using BootIt BM, you&#8217;ll be able to boot NT from above 2GB on most systems.&nbsp; There are some system BIOS\/Disk configurations which will still prevent NT from being booted above 2GB.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1782],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2127,2144],"class_list":["post-202","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-nt-2k-xp-2003","lsvr_kba_tag-windows","lsvr_kba_tag-windows-nt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6143,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/202\/revisions\/6143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}