Yes, while in the White Text/Blue Screen portion of XP setup, it will show
you the partition and space it wants to use, but if you read the text, you
have the choice to delete, then recreate the partition at the size you want.
Once XP is loaded, you can use Disk Management to create/format the rest of
the drive how you wish.
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"Paul Bobrowski" <pbobrowski-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:O1k$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'd personnally have to disagree with you on the point of a 2nd partition
> for data.
>
> I recently did a slipstream install of WinXP Pro /w SP2 due to me making a
> major computer upgrade the day before SP2 came out. (I'm just happy I knew
> it was happening so I waited to install everything).
>
> Having a smaller partition for the system and the rest of the space for
> data
> will help preserve your data incase of a corrupt system, or if you just
> want
> to format and get a fresh start.
>
> The reason I'm writing here is to throw out the idea of creating a small
> OS
> partition via WinXP setup. When I performed the install on a new clean
> drive (80GB), Windows Setup tried formatting the full drive as one
> partition
> without asking me. I ended up using a boot cd I made of the win98
> bootdisk
> and just fdisked a 10GB partition which I formatted as NTFS with Windows
> Setup. Does anyone know of a way to custom partition a hdd via Windows XP
> setup?
>
> Also to explain my partition layout further I have an 80GB HDD with a 10GB
> main system drive which just has Windows installed on it. The rest of the
> drive is another partition which contains all of my installed programs.
> Finally I have a 160GB HDD partitioned as one large data drive. This
> allows
> me to easily reload the operating system without losing any data or saved
> games and such.
>
>
> "Hans-Georg Michna" <hans-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:10:05 +0100, "Robert Smith"
>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>> >I have just bought a 160 Gig hard drive and tried to load it onto my PC
> with
>> >win Xp. XP will not load. The maker of my mother board tells me I have
>> >to
>> >have service pack 1 to get this Hd to run. How do I get the service
>> >pack
>> >onto my PC if I cannot load XP in the first place
>>
>> Robert,
>>
>> Carey has already given you the best advice. Let me just add one
>> other possibility, just in case all those proposals don't work
>> for you for one reason or another.
>>
>> You can install Windows XP into a smaller partition. I think
>> anything up to 130 GB is fine.
>>
>> Then you can install service pack 2.
>>
>> Then you can either expand the partition, using a suitable third
>> party tool like BootIt NG or Partition Magic, or you can create
>> a second partition and use it for data, which I don't think is a
>> very good idea, but it would work.
>>
>> The better way is certainly to create a slipstream version with
>> service pack 2, as Carey proposed.
>>
>> Hans-Georg
>>
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