Re: HDD Size

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"BH2" <(NO SPAM)furness50@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:unbu%23adrGHA.220@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| Hi,
| I have been having problems installing WinXp Home Edition Service Pack2 on
| the new computer I have just built, please see previous postings
| Reinstalling Windows - Boot Problem. Initialy I used and IDE HDD Western
| Digital 320Gb, I have been trying different configurations, disconnected the
| Sata Drives to no avail in the end I changed the HDD and it worked. My
| question is, 320Gb HDD is this too large for my version of windows, and
| should I have made a couple of smaller partitions on, or do you think the
| drive was faulty. Your help and advice really apprecited.
| Regards and Thanks
| Bob
|

Serial ATA (SATA) drives are the latest in the hard drive fashion and, in theory, installing Windows on the drive should prove relatively simple. The problem is that Windows XP doesn’t contain the necessary drivers to allow windows to see the drive so that Windows can install it.

http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org/how_do_i_install_windows_xp_on_a.htm


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