installing xp on hdd bigger than 130gb

newguy5 · 01-13-2008, 03:10 AM

i'll try the other program. the windows cd was actually before sp1 and everything. it was like THE first copy of windows xp, and it only sees 131061MB.

nyhk · 01-13-2008, 03:41 AM

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Originally Posted by newguy5

i'll try the other program. the windows cd was actually before sp1 and everything. it was like THE first copy of windows xp, and it only sees 131061MB.

So you DON'T have any service pack? Then go download SP2. You will not be able to use your entire harddrive without. The other tools won't change that.

After SP2 you can make another partition, og use gparted to extend your existing partitoin.

You can use slipstreaming (google) to make a new cd with SP2 integrated in it.

imsati · 01-13-2008, 05:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Motoxrdude

O, thats funny since back in the day when i had a 160gb i could use all of it after i partitioned two 75gb partitions.

As did I. Two 160GB HDD's each with two partitions (at different times). OS saw both partitions each time.

Technically, GParted isn't an OS, just a program capable of being run as a Live CD. But hey, yeah, it works

You can install Windows using one large partition, then install SP2, and see the drive.

nyhk · 01-13-2008, 05:27 AM

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Originally Posted by imsati

As did I. Two 160GB HDD's each with two partitions (at different times). OS saw both partitions each time.

I'm not sure if you're trying to say the same, that you can fully use a 160 GB harddrive just by using multiple partitons when the addressing scheme is LBA 28?

Motoxrdude · 01-13-2008, 05:56 AM

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Originally Posted by imsati

Technically, GParted isn't an OS, just a program capable of being run as a Live CD. But hey, yeah, it works

Technically, it is. It has a kernel and a compiler

imsati · 01-13-2008, 06:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Motoxrdude

Technically, it is. It has a kernel and a compiler

Punk

I'll yield

**Cromewell** · 01-13-2008, 07:17 AM

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The number of partitions doesn't matter. This issue is about LBA addressing with only 28 bits vs 48 bits in SP1/SP2.

So Windows cannot address more than 2^28 sectors

I'm quoting this because it's right.

Don't make a big partition (or even multiple small ones) unless your OS supports 48bit LBA. That means XP SP1 or later. You usually get data corruption/loss when you do that. If you manually enable 48bit LBA on preSP1 installs of windows XP, it may work but it's easy enough to slipstream SP1 or SP2 so just do that

abstractposer · 01-13-2008, 04:30 PM

i would just make a partition of about 120gb

newguy5 · 01-13-2008, 06:16 PM

this thing is killing me. i did the gparted and did two 125gb drives. problem is, and i've installed xp twice now, whenever i boot up it seems that one of the drives (either the one that has xp on it or the empty one) are like 90% full even if nothing is on them. now my xp drive has 111gb free and the totally empy 125gb drive says it has only 20.5gb free. what? how is that possible? i've done this twice. the time before i even installed sp2 and all the updates, then noticed the xp drive said 103 gb used and 14 free but when i clicked on all the files only xp had used 3.3gb. i don't know what's happening. anyone?

imsati · 01-13-2008, 07:46 PM

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the windows cd was actually before sp1 and everything. it was like THE first copy of windows xp, and it only sees 131061MB.

Somehow I missed reading this the first time. My bad.

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The number of partitions doesn't matter. This issue is about LBA addressing with only 28 bits vs 48 bits in SP1/SP2.

That is correct then.

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Post #19...

Why not either make a slipstream XP disk that has SP1 or SP2, or just install what you have now, then upgrade it to SP1 or SP2?

01-13-2008, 03:10 AM	#11 (permalink)
newguy5 Diamond Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Dallas, Tx Age: 25 Posts: 1,275	i'll try the other program. the windows cd was actually before sp1 and everything. it was like THE first copy of windows xp, and it only sees 131061MB. __________________ C2D E6750 Arctic Freezer 7 Pro 2GB G.Skill RAM PC2-6400 Gigabyte P35-DS3L Sapphire Radeon 3850 250GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 Thermaltake TR2 500W 22" Westinghouse (widescreen)

01-13-2008, 06:16 PM	#19 (permalink)
newguy5 Diamond Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Dallas, Tx Age: 25 Posts: 1,275	this thing is killing me. i did the gparted and did two 125gb drives. problem is, and i've installed xp twice now, whenever i boot up it seems that one of the drives (either the one that has xp on it or the empty one) are like 90% full even if nothing is on them. now my xp drive has 111gb free and the totally empy 125gb drive says it has only 20.5gb free. what? how is that possible? i've done this twice. the time before i even installed sp2 and all the updates, then noticed the xp drive said 103 gb used and 14 free but when i clicked on all the files only xp had used 3.3gb. i don't know what's happening. anyone? __________________ C2D E6750 Arctic Freezer 7 Pro 2GB G.Skill RAM PC2-6400 Gigabyte P35-DS3L Sapphire Radeon 3850 250GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 Thermaltake TR2 500W 22" Westinghouse (widescreen)

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abstractposer New Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Age: 19 Posts: 24	i would just make a partition of about 120gb