installing xp on hdd bigger than 130gb

well i have installed xp twice and created a slipstream cd as well.

1st time i installed xp:

i updated everything 100%, including sp2. then i looked at the drive and it said 95% full although there was only 3.3gb being used and the drive was totalled to 115gb.

2nd time i installed xp:

i didn't update anything. c drive with windows was correct on the size this time...3.3gb being used. i formatted the other partition and with NOTHING on it it said it was 92% full using like 112gb of 119. nothing was on it.

3rd time i installed with the slipstream cd:

i followed instructions to a "T" and the cd would not finish formatting the drive as the cd had corrupted files on it and could not install xp.

i am at a total loss here. does it sound like the hard drive may be bad? would gpart cause my hard drive to show 90% full after installing windows even though less than 2% of it is being used?
 
How did you slipstream it, its alot eaiser to use nLite and it will make a bootable ISO that you just have to burn a image of. Just have your XP cd and SP2. Make a folder so nLite can copy the XP cd into and another folder to copy the ISO folder to and run nLite its pretty much explains itself
 
i did it with nero but i will try with nlite. pretty sure it's not going to work. the more important question is why the hell has my hdd been saying 95% full when only 3-4 gb are being used in reality...
 
johnb35 said:
Anther easy program is called Autostreamer.
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done it 2 different ways now, including nlite. both times same error:

after format, setup says it cannot verify c: and then it loads setup files, stops at 10% and said it cannot load driver.cab and that the windows cd may be corrupted. did that on both slipstream cds i created. what's going on?
 
newguy5 said:
i did it with nero but i will try with nlite. pretty sure it's not going to work. the more important question is why the hell has my hdd been saying 95% full when only 3-4 gb are being used in reality...
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You still have to use Nero to burn a image of the bootable ISO that nLite makes. About your partitions it would be best to start over and delete all the partitions and create new ones the next time around.
 
newguy5 said:
done it 2 different ways now, including nlite. both times same error:

after format, setup says it cannot verify c: and then it loads setup files, stops at 10% and said it cannot load driver.cab and that the windows cd may be corrupted. did that on both slipstream cds i created. what's going on?
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Are you burning them at Max speed, if so slow it down abit. Plus clean off your XP cd to make sure your not getting any corrupt files. You sure the CD is in good shape? If your using a Sata drive go ahead with nLite and add the Sata drivers too.
 
StrangleHold said:
Are you burning them at Max speed, if so slow it down abit. Plus clean off your XP cd to make sure your not getting any corrupt files. You sure the CD is in good shape? If your using a Sata drive go ahead with nLite and add the Sata drivers too.
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how do i do this with the sata drivers? i can slow it down i guess, but it's 2 cds in a row and the same damn error. how do you clean off the xp cd to make sure there are no corrupt files?
 
newguy5 said:
how do i do this with the sata drivers? i can slow it down i guess, but it's 2 cds in a row and the same damn error. how do you clean off the xp cd to make sure there are no corrupt files?
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I didnt mean clean off the corrupted files, I meant clean it off so you dont get any when your coping it, finger prints-dust so on. You just download the Sata drivers for your board and when using nLite you just check add drivers and direct it to them and it will add them. But you only need to do that if your using a Sata drive plus XP Sp2 has alot more generic Sata drivers than the original XP did. It sounds like your doing it right but for some reason your getting a or some corrupted files when your copying it or burning it. Plus when your doing it the next time before you start delete all the old files that you copied the first time out the the folders you made.
 
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well the slipstream just wasn't working, but i used the slipstream xp install cd to create 2 partitions, then put the old xp cd in to actually install xp and wallah, it noticed the 2 partitions and didn't unusually "fill" them up like dpartition was doing. so far the problem appears solved *crosses fingers*
 
can't you go to the command prompt and type in fdisk or something close to that and reformat the drive and just start the install over again?
 
abstractposer said:
can't you go to the command prompt and type in fdisk or something close to that and reformat the drive and just start the install over again?
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1. my slipstream xp discs would not work; i made 2, they both failed at the same point.

2. my original xp disc is pre-sp1 so it will not ever recognize more than 137gb of the drive. doesn't matter how many times i reformat the rest of the drive is not accessible.

3. gpart is used for linux. i don't know why anyone suggested this tool. no wonder i used it, installed windows, and then it randomly filled up and i lost 50% of my drive. because it's typically used for linux it just makes sense there would be a compatability issue.

4. i solved the problem by using the slipstream disc to only partition the drive, then installed xp with my actual pre-sp1 disc because the drives were already split up to be <137gb
 
newguy5 said:
gpart is used for linux. i don't know why anyone suggested this tool. no wonder i used it, installed windows, and then it randomly filled up and i lost 50% of my drive. because it's typically used for linux it just makes sense there would be a compatability issue.
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I'm not sure why you had problems, but they weren't due to GParted. It's a partition management tool. The fact that it's used with Linux did not create any compatibility problems.
 
mep916 said:
I'm not sure why you had problems, but they weren't due to GParted. It's a partition management tool. The fact that it's used with Linux did not create any compatibility problems.
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i've read several instances where people had the same exact problems using windows xp. *shrug* could have simply been that i was using an old version of xp. could be the particular hard drive i have that doesn't like gparted. either way, it's a pretty common problem and like the moderator here said, you have to be careful using it while creating large partitions because you can have data loss, and that's exactly what i had.
 
3. gpart is used for linux. i don't know why anyone suggested this tool. no wonder i used it, installed windows, and then it randomly filled up and i lost 50% of my drive. because it's typically used for linux it just makes sense there would be a compatability issue.
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:confused: Uhhh...wrong. Gparted is an Open Source partition tool. It can be downloaded as a Live CD, therefore negating the need for an OS to run it under.

Download this link: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=173828, burn it a CD as a .iso file, reboot with the CD in your drive and boot to it via BIOS, partition however you desire. A general knowledge of how partitions work (primary, logical, extended) is recommended.
 
imsati said:
:confused: Uhhh...wrong. Gparted is an Open Source partition tool. It can be downloaded as a Live CD, therefore negating the need for an OS to run it under.

Download this link: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=173828, burn it a CD as a .iso file, reboot with the CD in your drive and boot to it via BIOS, partition however you desire. A general knowledge of how partitions work (primary, logical, extended) is recommended.
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i've already done all of that. it does not work. it fills my hard drive unnecessarily. read cromewell's post, it says if you use gparted and install a lower version of sp1 xp then you can have data loss, and i had a lot. it simply didn't work in my circumstance.
 
I've for one never experienced that. As I mentioned in my previous Post, a general knowledge of how partitions work is advised before using Gparted. The program itself is very straight-forward, and is infinitely more powerful than any current Windows Partitioning Tool. Combined with SP1 (slipstreamed or installed afterwards), you should have no issues. Perhaps you should read a bit more into it.

I'm sorry if you disagree, but it is what it is.
 
newguy5 said:
3. gpart is used for linux. i don't know why anyone suggested this tool. no wonder i used it, installed windows, and then it randomly filled up and i lost 50% of my drive. because it's typically used for linux it just makes sense there would be a compatability issue.
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Doesnt matter, a partition is a partition.
 
imsati said:
I've for one never experienced that. As I mentioned in my previous Post, a general knowledge of how partitions work is advised before using Gparted. The program itself is very straight-forward, and is infinitely more powerful than any current Windows Partitioning Tool. Combined with SP1 (slipstreamed or installed afterwards), you should have no issues. Perhaps you should read a bit more into it.

I'm sorry if you disagree, but it is what it is.
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i don't have a disc with sp1, and the 2 slipstream discs i created both failed at the same point. so back to what cromewell said, if you don't have sp1 then you may experience problems with gparted, which i did.
 
Combined with SP1 (slipstreamed or installed afterwards), you should have no issues
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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.
 
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