new hard drive problems!!

[TheBear]

I just bought a new maxtor 250 gb hard drive and now it is not installing windows xp. My old one died. so when the cd starts up it does copying files but i get an error. It says could not copy file\i386\hal\aacp.dll. is this a hard drive prob or an xp cd problem?

 

[TheBear]

never mind i fixed that error. Now when i go to install it, it only shows 32 gb on the partition screen. my hard drive is 250gb. what is causing the problem here. It is a maxtor drive.

 

[compslckr]

if it does not show the full 250gb it should at least show 130gb

try slipstreaming sp1 or sp2 into your windows xp cd, if you dont know how to do that check out google.com

 

[TheBear]

i should have read the whole manual. it says they include a jumper for some reason that limits the hard drive to 32 gbs. its a pain to take out.

also how should i partition my hard drive. should i do 250 in one. or should i have like 5gbs as a second partition.

 

[arkamw]

I do 10 and 70GB on my 80GB HDD. I like having the OS and "everything else" partition separate for organizational reasons. No speed advantage really to doing it.