installation problems on large hard drive

[Guest]

Well i have this problem I bought a 300g hard drive, but i only have xp
without SP1 on it so when i instlal windows on it it onlyinstalls 137g of the
drive. I tried going into windows and installing through there but i get the
lovely message that the CD version is older than the running version so it
wont install. I am currently trying to install ghost on the drive and just
make an image of the drive, but this will give me all the junk on the drive
that i dont want. Is there any solution to this? other than buying another
copy of windows xp? I am sure that there is a work around somewhere

 

[WTC]

Well i have this problem I bought a 300g hard drive, but i only have xp
without SP1 on it so when i instlal windows on it it onlyinstalls 137g of
the
drive. I tried going into windows and installing through there but i get
the
lovely message that the CD version is older than the running version so it
wont install. I am currently trying to install ghost on the drive and just
make an image of the drive, but this will give me all the junk on the
drive
that i dont want. Is there any solution to this? other than buying another
copy of windows xp? I am sure that there is a work around somewhere

Create a Windows XP SP2 CD by slipstreaming Service Pack 2 with your
original Windows XP CD and this should give you 48-bit support and allow you
to format a drive over 137 gigabytes.

Slipstreaming Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Create Bootable CD
http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/winxp-sp2-bootcd.html

AutoStreamer
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=223562

Or you could try it this way but I think slipstreaming would be much easier.

How to enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing support for ATAPI disk drives
in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=303013