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Ok, this is what I want to do

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Terranboy

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Ok. I'm a little lost. I've installed harddrives, and installed Windows. But I'll a little confused here. I have a 40gb and a 80gb (ATA, and WindowsXP is on the 40gb) and I just added a 320gb (SATA) I want to put Windows on the new SATA (since it's faster) Do I need to activate the 320gb in the harddrive manager screen first? (as a dynamic drive) Then try to install windows?

I thought I'd try just booting from the CD, hoping Windows would let me select a drive to format but when I boot from the Windows CD I get "Your computer is already in the process of beung upgraded to Windows" So I continue and it errors out saying "Cannot find installation of Windows"

And thoughts?
 
I have no idea what that message about already being in the process of being upgraded means. I've never seen or heard of such a thing.

You don't need to activate the drive in your current Windows installation, because nothing that happens in your current install means anything to the new one.

I would say disconnect the two PATA drives and see if Windows sees the new drive and allows you to partition it. It looks like you have an nforce2 mainboard (http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.aspx?rigid=25274 is the correct link for OTHER people to see your rig page by the way). The nforce2 does not have native SATA controllers, so your SATA ports are handled by an add-in chip running on the PCI bus. You will need to have the drivers for that controller on a floppy disk, and hit F6 when prompted by the Windows setup program to provide those drivers, otherwise it will not be able to see the new drive at all.

Is this an upgrade version of Windows? The message you got may have something to do with it finding that there is an existing version of WinXP already installed, if it's an upgrade version.
 
That rig is old. I have Nforce4 now, with built in SATA. It's WindowsXP Professional I'm trying to install. Not an upgrade. I installed it years back on the blank 40gb.

*edit* I got unplugged the ATA drives and got Windows Installed, but it comes up as only a 127gb HD. It wouldn't let me format a partition bigger than 131,000mb What can I do now?
 
IMO, GParted live CD, resize it, let it do a CHKDSK. I asked this about Win2k not long ago, but if it's an old XP, you've got the same problem.
 
Make sure SP 2 is applied. Also check the disk management. The remaining portion may be categorized as "unallocated" which needs to be formatted.
 
Check google for instructions on "slipstreaming" Service Pack 2 into your XP CD. You'll need to burn it to a bootable CDR disk, though. I don't think it'll let you combine the drive into a 320gb drive even after SP2, if Windows was already installed to the drive.
 
Originally posted by: Raduque
Check google for instructions on "slipstreaming" Service Pack 2 into your XP CD. You'll need to burn it to a bootable CDR disk, though. I don't think it'll let you combine the drive into a 320gb drive even after SP2, if Windows was already installed to the drive.
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This man speaks the truth. You need sp2 to see > 137gb at install time.
 
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