Installing WinXP Pro on 200Gb Drives

[Guest]

My initial installation went without a hitch, until I noticed that my 200G
drive was registering at 137G. Through some investigation I found that this
was because I installed XP, then later added the SP2. I was able to
partition and use the "unallocated portion of the drive" but would like to
consolidate the drive.
These leads me to the questions I have...
1) How can I install XP Pro on a system with a 200G system drive and get it
to reckognize the full disk size, even though I need to download the SP2?
2) Is there a way to get Windows XP with SP2 included at a reduced price
from MS if we return the copy we have?
3) If I decide to set up a RAID system, and am using three 200G drives, will
XP only reckognize them as 137G each until I install SP2?

Thank you all.

 

[Malke]

My initial installation went without a hitch, until I noticed that my
200G
drive was registering at 137G. Through some investigation I found
that this
was because I installed XP, then later added the SP2. I was able to
partition and use the "unallocated portion of the drive" but would
like to consolidate the drive.
These leads me to the questions I have...
1) How can I install XP Pro on a system with a 200G system drive and
get it to reckognize the full disk size, even though I need to
download the SP2? 2) Is there a way to get Windows XP with SP2
included at a reduced price from MS if we return the copy we have?
3) If I decide to set up a RAID system, and am using three 200G
drives, will XP only reckognize them as 137G each until I install SP2?

Thank you all.

To answer #1 and #3 - just create a slipstreamed XP install cd with SP2
included. Here are links to help you do that (very easy):

http://www.msfn.org/articles.php?action=show&showarticle=49
http://www.windows-help.net/windowsxp/winxp-sp2-bootcd.html

To answer #2 - no. Make the slipstreamed copy at no extra cost (except
for the cost of the cd-r which is minimal).

To consolidate the partition without losing data, you need a third-party
partitioning program like Partition Magic or BootITng.

Malke

 

[Guest]

Here's an interesting read about the 137 gB limit -
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/bios/sizeGB128-c.html

- John

 

[Guest]

Thanks everyone, Slipstreaming is great... easy, and quick.