Windows XP install ???

[The girl next door]

I've been reading around alot lately,as i have been trying to install Xp with no service pack...so my drive is only recognising 137 Gigs of my S-ata harddrive..I have tried 48 bit LBA/SP2 update as someone mentioned but with no joy..i also got the Drive to the proper 298GB(320) with an old Win ME boot diskette (Fdisk etc etc) and formatted as NTFS.but when i then install XP on the recognised 320 gig harddrive..It only gives me the option of formatting the drive on install which deletes the raid driver installed from a diskette,which i need to go on after 1st reboot.....
Am i going to have to face up to the fact that if i want the full 320(29 GB ,i will have to get a windows XP install CD with SP 1 or 2?????

[Khazul]

When you installing XP, during the inital boot up it say press F6 if you want to include a 3rd party SCSI/RAID etc driver - so press F6. Then have the driver available on a floppy - the RAID vendor will probably provide some tool for creating a floppy for you.

Laster during the install it will ask you to stick the driver disk in, slurp it up and all will be well from that point on.

Just did this last night on my pc after Cubase 4 upgrade hosed it. (Grrrr!).

[The girl next door]

Originally Posted by Khazul

When you installing XP, during the inital boot up it say press F6 if you want to include a 3rd party SCSI/RAID etc driver - so press F6. Then have the driver available on a floppy - the RAID vendor will probably provide some tool for creating a floppy for you.

Laster during the install it will ask you to stick the driver disk in, slurp it up and all will be well from that point on.

Just did this last night on my pc after Cubase 4 upgrade hosed it. (Grrrr!).

Yo Adam,that doesn't work for some reason..I press F6 and it installs the driver but then goes to format drive then reboots and goes straight into new install again and not the press any key to boot from CD which should come up before the rest of the windows install continues..
Its starting to really piss me off..

[The girl next door]

Originally Posted by The girl next door

Yo Adam,that doesn't work for some reason..I press F6 and it installs the driver but then goes to format drive then reboots and goes straight into new install again and not the press any key to boot from CD which should come up before the rest of the windows install continues..
Its starting to really piss me off..

I seem to get the impression that the format is deleting the Raid info that the diskette copied onto the Harddrive...
I also get the impression that is doesn't seem to recognise the harddrives 320 gigs and therefore not now what to do thus wanting to format!!
To actually install windows i have to delete the partition and recreate a new one which is great but then once windows is installed it only has 137 Gigs harddrive...
am i better getting rid of my arse scratching by getting hold of a WIn XP boot CD with sp1 oR 2???

[AlexHall74]

Originally Posted by The girl next door

I seem to get the impression that the format is deleting the Raid info that the diskette copied onto the Harddrive...
I also get the impression that is doesn't seem to recognise the harddrives 320 gigs and therefore not now what to do thus wanting to format!!
To actually install windows i have to delete the partition and recreate a new one which is great but then once windows is installed it only has 137 Gigs harddrive...
am i better getting rid of my arse scratching by getting hold of a WIn XP boot CD with sp1 oR 2???

Hey there,

PM me for quick info; I might be able to help...



-Alex