reinstalling win xp from system recovery disks

[Guest]

The harddrive on my 4 year old Sony Vaio desktop recently failed. I have
replaced it with a 160gb drive. I am trying to reinstall windows xp from the
system recovery disks provided by Sony (no original win xp disks were
provided). When I run the recovery disks it forces me to partition the drive
into a 8 gb system c: drive and tells me it will also create d: drive.
However, it fails to create the d: drive. I am stuck with only 8 out of 160
gb.

Is there another way to reinstall my win xp without using the system
recovery disks? Or is there some secret to using the system recovery disks?
I don't even know how to contact Sony to beg for help.
Thanks

 

[Rock]

The harddrive on my 4 year old Sony Vaio desktop recently failed. I have
replaced it with a 160gb drive. I am trying to reinstall windows xp from the
system recovery disks provided by Sony (no original win xp disks were
provided). When I run the recovery disks it forces me to partition the drive
into a 8 gb system c: drive and tells me it will also create d: drive.
However, it fails to create the d: drive. I am stuck with only 8 out of 160
gb.

Is there another way to reinstall my win xp without using the system
recovery disks? Or is there some secret to using the system recovery disks?
I don't even know how to contact Sony to beg for help.
Thanks

http://esupport.sony.com/perl/select-system.pl?PRODTYPE=24&NAVDISP=pc

 

[TeVan]

Resize the 8 gig partition to whatever you want.
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html

Free download, create boot floppy, boot with it, click cancel, click partition work (or something like that), highlight partition, click resize, cheers

 

[Guest]

I tried to resize the partition using the bootit program from the site you
recommended, but I was still limited to 8gb. It seems that the drive is
automatically formatted to 8gb when I reinstall winxp with the recovery
disks. I couldn't get the bootit program to over ride that. Thanks for the
idea, any other ideas?