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recognizing a 200gb drive

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Titan

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Just got a WD special edition 200gb drive from outpost.com, and I want to parition it up and install some things. It will be my OS/Storage drive. So I go to install windows XP pro, and the partitioning part of setup says my drive is something like 131gb, I was told I may have a problem with windows and such a large drive. How do I get around this, should I parition with a different tool? I have not done anything with it yet.
 
winXP without sp1 has a maximum partition size of 137GB. you have three choices:

1) create partitions smaller than this
2) do 1) and then resize them after you install SP1
3) slipstream SP1. go ask google how to do it. 🙂
 
that can't be right, this comp I am running has a raid of two 80gb hard drives, with a single partition of 153gb. Does it have to do with this being a single drive?
 
Your raid controller is the difference with the 2 drives. Windows just sends the data to the controller which parcels it out to the drives. The 153gb is sort of a virtual partition.
 
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