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A little background information on why I 'm asking this...
I have a 300 MB primary disk that the original XP installation CD will not
recognize during the initial installation. Microsoft says that you need to
have at least SP 1 (Article ID : 303013 - How to enable 48-bit Logical Block
Addressing support for ATAPI disk drives in Windows XP) in order to see large
disks. Of course you still need to run a partition manager (3rd party
especially for NTFS) after the installation to grow the size of the partition
to the full size of the disk.
The problem is that for reasons I am still trying to figure out, the system
wouldn't boot fron the hd (rather it hang right after the Windows XP boot
screen and before the login screen). In my haste to fix things up I run
fixboot then afterwards realizing that I must have messed things up royally,
since the disk had NTFS and fixboot works (I think...) on FAT filesystems.
And yes, I have tried all the suggestions about
Now, the idea is that if I could somehow make a Win XP Pro installation CD
with SP2 embedded and boot the PC with that, then it would probably recognize
the old 300 GB partition and install a fresh copy of XP retaining all my data
and programs.
Questions
1. Would that be true? Is it worth trying?
2. How do you go about preparing the content (XP Pro with SP2)?
3. Also, what would be a simple way to go about creating the CD?
(The MSDN article How to Create a Bootable CD-ROM describes such a procedure
-although I wonder if there is something simpler that would do the job - all
I may need is an SP2 updated copy of Win XP).
Any comments will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you all in advance
Demetre
Other sources:
(Article ID : 331958 - Hard disk may become corrupted when entering standby
or hibernation or when writing a memory dump)
(Article ID : 828930 - How to integrate software updates into your Windows
installation source files)
I have a 300 MB primary disk that the original XP installation CD will not
recognize during the initial installation. Microsoft says that you need to
have at least SP 1 (Article ID : 303013 - How to enable 48-bit Logical Block
Addressing support for ATAPI disk drives in Windows XP) in order to see large
disks. Of course you still need to run a partition manager (3rd party
especially for NTFS) after the installation to grow the size of the partition
to the full size of the disk.
The problem is that for reasons I am still trying to figure out, the system
wouldn't boot fron the hd (rather it hang right after the Windows XP boot
screen and before the login screen). In my haste to fix things up I run
fixboot then afterwards realizing that I must have messed things up royally,
since the disk had NTFS and fixboot works (I think...) on FAT filesystems.
And yes, I have tried all the suggestions about
Now, the idea is that if I could somehow make a Win XP Pro installation CD
with SP2 embedded and boot the PC with that, then it would probably recognize
the old 300 GB partition and install a fresh copy of XP retaining all my data
and programs.
Questions
1. Would that be true? Is it worth trying?
2. How do you go about preparing the content (XP Pro with SP2)?
3. Also, what would be a simple way to go about creating the CD?
(The MSDN article How to Create a Bootable CD-ROM describes such a procedure
-although I wonder if there is something simpler that would do the job - all
I may need is an SP2 updated copy of Win XP).
Any comments will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you all in advance
Demetre
Other sources:
(Article ID : 331958 - Hard disk may become corrupted when entering standby
or hibernation or when writing a memory dump)
(Article ID : 828930 - How to integrate software updates into your Windows
installation source files)