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Forum overview » Hardware » Installing Windows XP to a large SATA Hard Drive (1/1)

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Installing Windows XP to a large SATA Hard Drive
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pwalthall
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Icon 2005-02-20 00:10:23

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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dosfreak
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Icon 2005-02-20 02:32:03

According to this: http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=17711
http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/maxtor.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=960&p_created=1016214655&p_sid=325_gMwh&p_lva=960&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZwX3NvcnRfYnk9JnBfZ3JpZHNvcnQ9JnBfcm93X2NudD03MzEmcF9wYWdlPTE*&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.
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janfebmar
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Icon 2005-02-20 07:42:54

i agree.
had some issues with IDE disks like that home at base.
showing wrong disk space.
you might run a scan utility tool such as norton disk doctor.
i know that one can fix certain "disk size report" faults.
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pwalthall
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Icon 2005-02-20 14:35:30

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.
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