reformat

[Jim]

It looks like I have to reformat. I'm going to go ahead and put in a new
Seagate 200gb drive. I'm not sure if my Windows disk has sp1 on it or not,
so if I put the new drive in as a slave and format it while I still have
sp2, then take it out and change the jumper to master, take out my current
drive and replace it with the new Seagate will the install disk recognize
all 200gb, or will I be stuck with the 137 gb limit anyway since I'm
"starting from scratch". Whew! Thanks for any help! (hopefully the disk
has sp1!)

Jim

 

[Jerry]

Assuming your 'original' CD has XP or XP w/SP1 then what you do is download
SP2, slipstream the SP2 download with the CD, burn a new CD that is now XP
w/SP2 CD.

Best bet is to use AutoStreamer:
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showforum=89

 

[Loren Pechtel]

It looks like I have to reformat. I'm going to go ahead and put in a new
Seagate 200gb drive. I'm not sure if my Windows disk has sp1 on it or not,
so if I put the new drive in as a slave and format it while I still have
sp2, then take it out and change the jumper to master, take out my current
drive and replace it with the new Seagate will the install disk recognize
all 200gb, or will I be stuck with the 137 gb limit anyway since I'm
"starting from scratch". Whew! Thanks for any help! (hopefully the disk
has sp1!)

If you hit the 137gb limit and the drive is formatted to 200 it
doesn't work at all. I forget what happens but I hit it once and I
know installation was impossible.

 

[Jim]

Thanks for the replies. As it turns out, my install disk did have SP1 on it
and the 200gb drive was recognized.

Jim