Problem creating two drive partitions

[Mark F.]

System: WinXP Pro
Harddrive: Maxtor ATA 160GB
Problem:

The drive was installed using the WinXP CD as boot disk. To avoid the
large disk capacity problems I decided to create two 80GB partitions
(81920 MB each) and the format is NTFS. Windows created the partitions
and installed the OS however disk management shows that I have three
partitions 80GB, 41GB, and a 21GB partition!

Any fixes?
Thanks.

 

[VWWall]

System: WinXP Pro
Harddrive: Maxtor ATA 160GB
Problem:

The drive was installed using the WinXP CD as boot disk. To avoid the
large disk capacity problems I decided to create two 80GB partitions
(81920 MB each) and the format is NTFS. Windows created the partitions
and installed the OS however disk management shows that I have three
partitions 80GB, 41GB, and a 21GB partition!

Unless your BIOS supports LAB48, you can not avoid the large,(>128GiB),
problem by making smaller partitions.

There may be a BIOS update, or you cam get an IDE card that will support
large drives.

 

[Mark F.]

Unless your BIOS supports LAB48, you can not avoid the large,(>128GiB),
problem by making smaller partitions.

Do you mean 48bit LBA mode? Yes it does, I think the problem is the
partitioning that WinXP installation performed was bad.

 

[VWWall]

Do you mean 48bit LBA mode? Yes it does, I think the problem is the
partitioning that WinXP installation performed was bad.

Oops! Should be LBA 48 bit. You also need SP2 for WinXP.

For partitioning, I use gparted. There is a live CD available here:

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

It will use a Linux kernel to set up gparted, which does a much better
partitioning job than the WinXP CD.

Very handy to have around! You can even resize partitions with it.

 

[kony]

Oops! Should be LBA 48 bit. You also need SP2 for WinXP.

SP1 needed, SP2 is not.

 

[Mark F.]

Oops! Should be LBA 48 bit. You also need SP2 for WinXP.

For partitioning, I use gparted. There is a live CD available here:

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

It will use a Linux kernel to set up gparted, which does a much better
partitioning job than the WinXP CD.

Very handy to have around! You can even resize partitions with it.

I downloaded the Gnome Partitioner app. It worked great and fixed my
problem. That is a well written application! From now on I think that I will
run it first and then install the OS.

Thanks for the help.
Mark