Re: XP won't install on SATA HDD

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"twjeff" <twjeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
I cannot get XP to intall on my new SATA drive. I have a brand new Asus p5b
deluxe motherboard, with a 320GB SataII HDD. It will only recognize 131MB of
this drive to partition... What gives? I thought this issue was resolved
already.... Please help! I only have my oritional XP disk, which does not
have big drive or SP 1 or 2 on it..

XP needs to be at SP1 or SP2 to see the full capacity of the drive. Create an installation CD that has SP2 integrated on it. The process to do this is called slipstreaming. Autostreamer makes it easier to do. And then follow John John's advice to load the drivers using F6 during the install.

Slipstreaming

http://www.theeldergeek.com/slipstreamed_xpsp2_cd.htm
http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/

Autostreamer
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/1092632287/1
http://www.simplyguides.net/guides/using_autostreamer/using_autostreamer.html
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=223562

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

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