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Strange XP install problem

idiotekniQues

idiotekniQues

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new build in my sig.

i have an xp pro disc from when it first came out. has worked fine. i had an issue with it only seeing my drives as 130gb when they were larger. so someone told me to slipstream sp2 and it would work. so i did, and it did start to setup, but here is what happens.

i get the good ole setup screen after windows loads a bunch of setup files. it shows my hard drive space and tells me teh good ole create partition, delete partition, install windows options. of course i want to create a partition so i do - and now its supposed to give me the file format options for the partition but it doesnt. it says this is not a partition that windows xp can setup files on so to go back and delete or create a new one yada yada.

ive tried different sizes, different pysical drives, settings in my BIOS for my drives - it will simply not let me format a partition once ive created it to install windows upon.

what is going on? i am stuck 🙁
 
fyi i have tried this with bios defaults, i am not installing RAID, RAID Is disabled in the bios.

when windows setup gets me to the screen to pick space on my hard drives to partition or install windows they are listed as such

238473 MB Disk at id 0 on bus 0 on atapi [mbr]
238473 MB Disk at id 0 on bus 0 on atapi [mbr]
381552 MB Disk at id 0 on bus 0 on atapi [mbr]

which is correct, right now i have 2x250gb drives and one 400gb drive. one is IDE and is a dynamic volume that has a lot of my files on it. the other two are brand new SATA drives which show all empty space. i can create a partition on them but the error above happens. rig in sig.
 
Download GParted LiveCD, burn it, boot off of that and repartition/resize the drive, then install Windows. Otherwise you can boot off the XP install disk, go into recovery console, and partition/format from there. Not sure why the install isn't handling it, but if there is an issue with the drive/controller maybe one of these steps will shake it loose.
 
But aren't you required to load the SATA driver during the setup (press F6)? I used to have the original Win XP installation disc without any SP's and when I deal with large hdd (>130GB), I create one partition for 130Gb and continue with the installation. As soon as I get the SP's installed, I go to Disk Management and the rest of the hdd is showing and then I partition and format it again. In this way, I can use all of the hdd space. As for the dynamic hdd, obviously you cannot install OS on this hdd until you conver it to a basic hdd.
 
i thought you only had to install raid drivers?

i dont want the 250gb IDE drive to have an OS on it anyways. i want to keep the data on it.

also, i dont want the OS on a 130gb partition. i want it on a 15gb partition 🙂

im tryin GPartedLive in a few. thanks.
 
well i gave up and took an 80 gig pata drive i had in my old rig and formatted an 11gb partition on it while in my old rig.

then i threw it in this new rig and installed xp on it right quick with the xp sp2 slipstream disk i had made.

as we speak i am on the new rig while i am using this install of xp to partition my other drives and see if i get fubared trying to install windows this way.

oi vay!

what the heck could i have been doing wrong? although it still might screw up.
 
well if anybody else has this weird problem with this mobo or another.

making a partition on a HD inside windows on another pc worked like a charm.

booted up with windows disc and it utilized the partition as a valid install partition. this rig kicks booty.
 
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