160Gig HD and xp

[Robert Smith]

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 Frisch [MVP]]

SP2 replaces SP1, therefore only SP2 should be installed.

If you are contemplating a fresh install, I recommend the
following:

Either one of the following utilities makes slipstreaming SP2
into Windows XP a breeze:

Windows Slipstreaming and Bootable CD Guide
http://www.msfn.org/articles.php?action=show&showarticle=49

Information on AutoStreamer 1.0
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=188337&st=0&#entry245

Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Direct Download
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...BE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx

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|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

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

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

 

[Paul Bobrowski]

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.

 

[Star Fleet Admiral Q]

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.

 

[Paul Bobrowski]

I didn't see that. I know you can delete and recreate partitions; however,
when I selected to use the free space on the drive it automatically started
formatting the whole drive as one partition without prompting me to enter a
size. I'm doing another SP2 reload on a different machine this weekend,
I'll try to see if I can spot where I went wrong.