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Windows XP Install Hard Drive Capacity Loss

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degaffman

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I think the message and topic says it all. I have a new 200GB hard drive I want as my OS drive, but XP will only give me 120GB of it due to O/S limitations. I've seen once I upgrade O/S, I can regain that space if the drive is not the one with the O/S installed. How can I do my install without losing drive space, without spending money on a 3rd party partioning software? Thanks!


degaffman:disgust:😀
 
If I upgrade to SP2 after the fact, I can re-claim the hard drive space but only on a new partition. I think that if the drive didn't have the O/S on it, it would let me recover the space on the existing partition. But I really only wanted to have one partition for the drive (guess I didn't make that clear above). How do you slipstream SP2 onto the setup disk?


Bill
 
There are workarounds for this. Dell has some hard-drive management utils that I use sometimes to expand partitions. I believe the third-party applications that exist are like Server Magic, etc...

You can expand partitions using that...of course, there may be some free ones available too. Autostreamer is the best way though...

Originally posted by: degaffman
If I upgrade to SP2 after the fact, I can re-claim the hard drive space but only on a new partition. I think that if the drive didn't have the O/S on it, it would let me recover the space on the existing partition. But I really only wanted to have one partition for the drive (guess I didn't make that clear above). How do you slipstream SP2 onto the setup disk?


Bill
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I have a SP2 instlallation disc...can I use the SP2.exe on the disc and stream it, or do I still need to download SP2 to stream it corretly?
 
Originally posted by: degaffman
How can I do my install without losing drive space, without spending money on a 3rd party partioning software? Thanks!


degaffman:disgust:😀
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Install your OS and programs on a smaller partition ...like 10 or 20 GBs. Then you can use XP's built-in Disk Management utility to allocate a second partition and format it.
 
Install XP on a smaller drive.

Upgrade to SP2.

Use HD mfr's tools to copy the small HD to the new larger HD.
 
You may need to FLASH a New BIOS on your Motherboard as well.

SP2 is just 1 / 2 requirement for Larger Hardrives,
the other is an updated motherboad. Some older motherboard just don't support big drives
 
Originally posted by: Peter007
You may need to FLASH a New BIOS on your Motherboard as well.

SP2 is just 1 / 2 requirement for Larger Hardrives,
the other is an updated motherboad. Some older motherboard just don't support big drives
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Or more specifically the hard disk controller, in the event that he's using a PCI controller.
 
1. Install XP as normal. Download SP2 and bios update. Update bios, slipstream SP2 onto a new cd.
2. Reformat and install XP SP2
 
just install windows, install SP2 and then boot off knoppix or other live linux and use qtparted to stretch the partition bigger. I hate that people recommend spending however much on partition magic, when you could boot into knoppix, dd over the drive, then qtparted it bigger for free.

or slipstream like everyone else is saying.... either way works... dont bother dumping money into 3rd party partitioning utils though
 
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