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Old 12-28-2003, 09:55 PM   #1 (permalink)
The_Dude
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Installing a 160gb HD

I just got one of these and it's a pain installing it.

me and numist were trying to the other night, but nothing worked yet.

I wanna do a clean install of xp pro on the new hd and use my current one as a secondary hd.

windows xp cd will NOT recognize a hd greater than 137gb. i get a new verison of fdisk and it recognizes the whole thing.

so, i partition everything up and then pop in the winxp cd to boot into and it doesnt wanna boot into it after i partitioned my hd. if i remove the partitions, it will boot into cd. i have no clue why this is doing this.

is there any boot into programs that will recognize the whole 152gbs and will let me partition the thing?

btw, i have an ultra ata card that is supposed to help out with this, but i dont wanna add an extra card unless i have to.

i was just going to go with the 137 gb, but i'm having memory problems now and i thought i'd wait till i get new memory.

so, any comments/suggestions welcome on this.
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