Reinstalling Winxp-pro problems - NO VALID PARTITION???

[DrB]

Building a new system and have an unpartitioned 320gb hard drive with
troubles installing winxp-pro. Used Bart's PE Builder to get a windows
environment, since my WinXp-Pro disc is not bootable, but error message
comes up when running winnt32.exe that no valid partition is present even
though it was there on the other computer
which I used to do a full partition using NTFS. I am wondering if my slip
streamed winxp+sp2 install disc is limited in seeing a big hard drive. Is
there a limitation?

Would it be better to partition to 10gb for the c: drive and use the rest
for programs, etc, or is there a way of getting winxp installed with the
320gb drive?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Building a new system and have an unpartitioned 320gb hard drive
with troubles installing winxp-pro. Used Bart's PE Builder to get a
windows environment, since my WinXp-Pro disc is not bootable, but
error message comes up when running winnt32.exe that no valid
partition is present even though it was there on the other computer
which I used to do a full partition using NTFS. I am wondering if
my slip streamed winxp+sp2 install disc is limited in seeing a big
hard drive. Is there a limitation?

Would it be better to partition to 10gb for the c: drive and use
the rest for programs, etc, or is there a way of getting winxp
installed with the 320gb drive?

Please continue with your original thread(s)...

http://groups.google.com/groups/pro...AB25T0u7hpZNO4GIqLYIvYQANzlI28YMOqJoqdK4hA-xw

Your 'corporate' version does not exist. If you have what you claim to
have - it is not legitimate. If you are just not understanding what you are
saying and you have an OEM recovery CD/DVD - it is not a tru installation
medium anyway - it is some method your OEM put together.

It has been suggested you use the boot floppies to legitimately boot and
then install.

320GB is far below any limit Windows XP SP1 or above has for
recognizing/formatting/utiolizing hard disk drives.

Good luck.