installing xp on hdd bigger than 130gb

newguy5 · 01-15-2008, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Cromewell

With an SP1 or later installation disk you're right, almost every time it would be fine but unfortunately in this case we don't have that.

Another solution you could try: Install XP, make a small partition for it. Upgrade to SP1 or preferably SP2 then use GParted to resize the partition to the full disk.

yes, the first piece you mentioned is what happened to me. what i did as the solution was create the slipstream cd, booted to it, created my partitions, then aborted the xp installation since my slipstream discs would not work for some unknown reason. then i simply installed my pre-sp1 xp since the partitions were already created and were already created by windows, not by gparted.

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