Re: problem with XP and 200 Gb harddrive

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From: JBM (jmanning95_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/07/04 

Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 12:48:34 -0600

Here's a link that explains slipstreaming.
http://www.windows-help.net/WindowsXP/winxp-sp1-bootcd.html
it should work with SP2 when its available.
To check if SP1 is installed right click My Computer and click
properties, click the general tab.
You have to install SP1 to get support for large hard drives.
Just installing updates of windows updates won't fix that problem.
I'm not clear if your able to boot into XP or not? If your not
Boot into the recovery console by booting with the XP cd and
pressing R when it says press R to repair using recovery console.
enter the number of the installation you want to repair, probably 1
you'll be asked to enter the administration password. This is the pass
word you created when you installed windows. I use pro, but I think
for home you can just press enter. After you get into the recovery
console type
"chkdsk /P driveletter:" without the quotes. it will check and repair
your drive. I would run it on every drive.
Type help to see a list of the commands available.
You can also type "command /?" for help on a command.

Or have you tried doing a repair install?
Boot from the XP CD the first screen you see that has a line
that says press R to repair using repair console DON'T PRESS R
press enter to continue with setup. Setup will search for
windows installations and will offer to repair ones it finds.

"Andy" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1e2e01c47ca3$12a87580$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi
>
> I'm not sure if Service Pack 1 is on the original XP
> install disc that I have. It said it is the 2002
> version. But the first thing I did when I booted up was
> install all critical windows updates. So Service Pack 1
> was/is installed now. And if I have to completely format
> the drive in order for it to work, then oh well. I'll do
> it. But I had an idea last night which I think will work.
> My idea was to use Maxblast 3 to do a drive-to-drive copy
> to my 40 GB HD. Which semi-worked. Pretty much all the
> files copied over, except a few that were not required to
> boot XP, but when I went to boot up thats when I ran into
> problems, which I was half expecting. Let me explain.
> See the reason I bought XP and a 200 GB was because about
> a month ago my windows 98(on a 80 GB harddrive) got
> registry errors and needed a format and clean install to
> fix. So I installed windows 98 on my 40 GB harddrive in
> the meantime until I could buy XP and a larger harddrive.
> That worked for about two weeks until oneday it just
> stopped booting up. It would either hang with a black
> screen when loading up windows or it would say "Safe to
> shutdown your computer" and then power down. I hope you
> can follow that. So anyways, I formatted the 40 GB a few
> times and Win98 and WinXP will not boot up, but I can copy
> files to and from it. So it doesn't make sense to me.
> Oh and the 127 GB is not a typo. Maxtor's site talks
> about it either being 137 or 128, so I figure close enough.
> Also, I'm not quite sure what a slipstream install is. If
> someone could explain or point me to somewhere that
> explains, please do. Well that is all I can think of to
> say right now. Thanks for the suggestions and any help
> towards fixing my 40 GB hd would be appreciated. I'm
> hoping that is just some setting I messed up. Just a lot
> of bad luck in the past few weeks!
>
> Andy
>

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