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bloo

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i have a maxtor 250 gb sata hard drive, but when i installed windows xp, it only read the drive as 130 gigs. when i installed home edition on the same machine, it read the hd as 250.

what gives?
 
bloo said:
i have a maxtor 250 gb sata hard drive, but when i installed windows xp, it only read the drive as 130 gigs. when i installed home edition on the same machine, it read the hd as 250.

what gives?
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Your copy of Windows XP Professional needs to have service pack 2 slipstreamed into it if you want the installer to format and install on a partition greater than 137GB. Slipstreaming is easy if you have a CD or DVD recorder and will save you time and headaches in the same situation later.

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sp2_slipstream.asp

If you don't want to slipstream then you can update your windows with SP2 after you install it, and then use the disk manager to create a second partition that uses the rest of the space on the drive. (Or you can use a disk manager with resize capability to resize the primary partition)

Slipstreaming SP2 into your WinXP Pro disc is far better and you'll be happy you did it in the long run.
 
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