Installing Windows XP to a large SATA Hard Drive
I am trying to install XP on a 300gig Maxtor. XP setup sees it as a 130gig drive. BIOS is current to January 05. Setup copys files but reports an error on starting XP. Any ideas?.
I am trying to install XP on a 300gig Maxtor. XP setup sees it as a 130gig drive. BIOS is current to January 05. Setup copys files but reports an error on starting XP. Any ideas?
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According to this: http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=17711
http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/maxto...lPTE*&p_li=
It's a limitation of pre-SP1 XP's discs. Don't know how accurate that is but it sounds right.
You'll probably have to slipstream SP2 to your XP disc, thereby creating a XP SP2 CD from which you can install from and support your drive....
There may be workarounds but it's probably best to do it the right way.
http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/maxto...lPTE*&p_li=
It's a limitation of pre-SP1 XP's discs. Don't know how accurate that is but it sounds right.
You'll probably have to slipstream SP2 to your XP disc, thereby creating a XP SP2 CD from which you can install from and support your drive....
There may be workarounds but it's probably best to do it the right way.
Thanks for the slipstreaming advice. Alas, while setup got the disk size correct, Windows still failed to load the first time. It gave the error message: Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt <Windows root>\System32\hal.dll. Please reinstall a copy of this file. I tried the install 3 times with the same result. This is an MSI board and the drive is SATA operating on a 4 channel nvidia SATA controller. I am guessing now that I am tangled up in the bios. Again thanks for the replies and if you have other thoughts I would appreciate them.
