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Question for those of you who have run into this.
XP has a limitation of 137gb for hard drives pre service pack one. My edition of XP is not the one with SP1 bundled into it. I am thinking of buying a 250gb drive.
Question: Is the 137gb limit the limit to the entire drive size that XP sees or is it the limit for partitions that XP can create?
From what I've read it looks like that's the max size drive it sees and not just the partitions. Just looking for conformation.
I've done this before:
1. Install XP on a parition smaller than 137GB on the 250GB HD
2. Install SP1
3. Create more partitions using the newly found extra space
As far as using it without SP1, you can...just won't see more than 137GB of course.
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Originally Posted by InTheWayBoy
OK, thank you.
here is a methods by which you cant make it seek the entire thing:
If you have Ghost or another disk cloneing software that supports NTFS 5, large drives, and partition resizeing.
create and install to a small partition (realy small, or even to a old IDE disk but begenough fo XP and SP2).
Intstall SP2
clone the partition to the new big drive, resizing to use all of it.
see this post on another group: here
or using an exisign system with a CD burner you can create an OEM like windows CD from an original WInXP CD (one that does not already include updates, it will tell you if you try). here
Or download and ISO image from MSDN with SP2 slipstreamed...that's what I did.
What version of XP is this, home or pro, and is this OEM or retail.
...or slipstream SP2 yourself, only takes 10-15 minutes to get a SP2 CD...
Rather Slipstream SP1a, dont like SP2 still :)
http://www.autopatcher.com/autostreamer.html
This does it.
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Originally Posted by Ya_know
That's what I did. Well, a friend did.