XP won't install on SATA HDD

[Guest]

I cannot get XP to intall on my new SATA drive. I have a brand new Asus p5b
deluxe motherboard, with a 320GB SataII HDD. It will only recognize 131MB of
this drive to partition... What gives? I thought this issue was resolved
already.... Please help! I only have my oritional XP disk, which does not
have big drive or SP 1 or 2 on it..

 

[John John]

Press F6 very early on during the Setup routine and feed it the SATA
drivers. Pay close attention when the XP setup starts, early on at the
bottom of the screen you will see a prompt telling you to press F6 to
install Raid or Mass Storage Device drivers. You have to catch it at
that time or else you will have to reboot and start the setup routine
again. You MUST supply the drivers on a floppy diskette, the setup
program will not accept the drivers from any other media source. The
SATA drivers should be on your motherboard driver CD. Read the
documentation for your mobo or go to the Asus web site and see if the
drivers are available there for download. If you have no diskette drive
you can temporarily fit one to the computer, if not you will have to
slipstream the drivers to a Windows XP cd that you will have to burn.

John

 

[Anna]

Press F6 very early on during the Setup routine and feed it the SATA
drivers. Pay close attention when the XP setup starts, early on at the
bottom of the screen you will see a prompt telling you to press F6 to
install Raid or Mass Storage Device drivers. You have to catch it at that
time or else you will have to reboot and start the setup routine again.
You MUST supply the drivers on a floppy diskette, the setup program will
not accept the drivers from any other media source. The SATA drivers
should be on your motherboard driver CD. Read the documentation for your
mobo or go to the Asus web site and see if the drivers are available there
for download. If you have no diskette drive you can temporarily fit one
to the computer, if not you will have to slipstream the drivers to a
Windows XP cd that you will have to burn.

John

twjeff:
No, the problem is not recognition of your SATA HDD. Rather you've run up
against the large-capacity disk barrier because you hadn't SP1 or SP2
installed on your XP operating system at the time you installed your 320 GB
HDD.

Without SP1 or SP2, the system will recognize only up to (about) 137 GB (or
128 GB binary) of hard drive disk space.

So install SP2 to your system and the full capacity of your HDD will be
recognized. The remaining disk space above what is currently recognized will
be designated as "unallocated" disk space. So you will use XP's Disk
Management utility to partition/format that disk space. So at a minimum you
will have two partitions.
Anna

 

[John John]

twjeff:
No, the problem is not recognition of your SATA HDD. Rather you've run up
against the large-capacity disk barrier because you hadn't SP1 or SP2
installed on your XP operating system at the time you installed your 320 GB
HDD.

Without SP1 or SP2, the system will recognize only up to (about) 137 GB (or
128 GB binary) of hard drive disk space.

So install SP2 to your system and the full capacity of your HDD will be
recognized. The remaining disk space above what is currently recognized will
be designated as "unallocated" disk space. So you will use XP's Disk
Management utility to partition/format that disk space. So at a minimum you
will have two partitions.
Anna

That's what I figured at first but he says he can't install at all. I
know that without the Service Pack the system won't recognize the full
drive capacity but otherwise, as you have pointed out, he should have
been able to install if the SATA was being properly recognize or seen.

John

 

[Rock]

I cannot get XP to intall on my new SATA drive. I have a brand new Asus
p5b
deluxe motherboard, with a 320GB SataII HDD. It will only recognize 131MB
of
this drive to partition... What gives? I thought this issue was resolved
already.... Please help! I only have my oritional XP disk, which does
not
have big drive or SP 1 or 2 on it..

XP needs to be at SP1 or SP2 to see the full capacity of the drive. Create
an installation CD that has SP2 integrated on it. The process to do this is
called slipstreaming. Autostreamer makes it easier to do. And then follow
John John's advice to load the drivers using F6 during the install.

Slipstreaming

http://www.theeldergeek.com/slipstreamed_xpsp2_cd.htm
http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/

Autostreamer
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/1092632287/1
http://www.simplyguides.net/guides/using_autostreamer/using_autostreamer.html
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=223562

 

[Guest]

Ok, yes, indeed I can get it to install, but no it does not recognize the
big drive. I had this problem once before and could never get it to work.
Slipstreaming didn't work and it was very complicated. The big drive disks
that I was told to download from the HDD company failed to work.

But now I am having the same issues, but it appears without SP1 or SP2 it
won't recognize the rest of the space on the disk... What a pain...