WIN XP installation

[Guest]

Hello,

I just bought XP PRO and a new 200 GB HD. I'm trying to put XP on this HD
and the setup tells me its unpartitioned or unrecognized and says it only has
about 131 GB. Well, can anybody help me out with get XP installed on this 200
GB HD without losing half of its memory? Or did any body try to create say a
40 G partition on it and install Windows, basically will it see the rest when
windows is on?

Thank you,
Dima

 

[Bjorn Landemoo]

Dimi

Install XP in a smaller partition, install SP2 and then follow the advice
in this MS Knowledge Base article:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=303013

Next, you will be able to create a second, large, partition using Disk
Management that fills the disk

Best regards

Bjorn

 

[Venger]

Hello,

I just bought XP PRO and a new 200 GB HD. I'm trying to put XP on this HD
and the setup tells me its unpartitioned or unrecognized and says it only
has
about 131 GB. Well, can anybody help me out with get XP installed on this
200
GB HD without losing half of its memory? Or did any body try to create say
a
40 G partition on it and install Windows, basically will it see the rest
when
windows is on?

Your XP disc is a little old, hence doesn't support 48-bit LBA, which is
needed to get past the 128GB limit. If you want one, large, grossly
oversized, ridiculous C: drive, then you'll need to get a SP2 slipstreamed
disc or use a disk partitioning program.

Better though is creating a second partition for data, using the C:
partition for the system and programs.

You can do that on your disc. Create a partition of reasonable size - I'd go
at least 40GB - and install the OS. Patch to SP2, which includes LBA
updates, and your disc WILL be seen at full size in the OS in Disk
Management.

Keep in mind if you want one huge C: drive, that is an UNGODLY size disc to
defrag, chkdsk, etc... keep the C: drive small, so when XP invariably dies,
it can chkdsk without taking the best years of your life to finish...

Venger