Guest Isaac Posted September 26, 2007 Posted September 26, 2007 Hello, I'm just replaced a HDD in my 4yr/o gateway laptop, and am attempting to re-install XP Pro via the CD. Setup runs great until I get to an early step- Partitioning the HDD?! It shows there are 475000MB available, but won't let me create a partition, or just [enter] and move along. I'd appreciate any pointers! Thanks!
Guest JS Posted September 26, 2007 Posted September 26, 2007 Re: XP Pro Setup Halts at Partition step?! Does the BIOS show the full size of the new hard drive? What service pack (original XP CD, SP1 CD or SP2 CD) is your Windows CD? What was the size of your old hard drive? JS "Isaac" <Isaac@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1399E9A5-E0EC-4EF0-A558-B59126972974@microsoft.com... > Hello, > > I'm just replaced a HDD in my 4yr/o gateway laptop, and am attempting to > re-install XP Pro via the CD. > > Setup runs great until I get to an early step- Partitioning the HDD?! It > shows there are 475000MB available, but won't let me create a partition, > or > just [enter] and move along. > > I'd appreciate any pointers! Thanks!
Guest Unknown Posted September 26, 2007 Posted September 26, 2007 Re: XP Pro Setup Halts at Partition step?! Are you sure that is what it says? 475 GB for a laptop is enormous. "Isaac" <Isaac@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1399E9A5-E0EC-4EF0-A558-B59126972974@microsoft.com... > Hello, > > I'm just replaced a HDD in my 4yr/o gateway laptop, and am attempting to > re-install XP Pro via the CD. > > Setup runs great until I get to an early step- Partitioning the HDD?! It > shows there are 475000MB available, but won't let me create a partition, > or > just [enter] and move along. > > I'd appreciate any pointers! Thanks!
Guest Isaac Posted September 26, 2007 Posted September 26, 2007 Re: XP Pro Setup Halts at Partition step?! Thanks JS- The new hard drive is a 120G WD- the old was a 30G Toshiba. Looking at the Windows CD- I believe it's an original (Version 2002). BIOS shows this: (I don't think I interperet it well) IDE Adapter 0 Master [120034MB] IDE Adapter 1 Master [CD-ROM] (below that) Total Memory: 255MB In the setup partition setup screen where I get trapped- the unpartitioned space is 694097MB? What do you think? Isaac "JS" wrote: > Does the BIOS show the full size of the new hard drive? > What service pack (original XP CD, SP1 CD or SP2 CD) is your Windows CD? > What was the size of your old hard drive? > > JS > > "Isaac" <Isaac@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:1399E9A5-E0EC-4EF0-A558-B59126972974@microsoft.com... > > Hello, > > > > I'm just replaced a HDD in my 4yr/o gateway laptop, and am attempting to > > re-install XP Pro via the CD. > > > > Setup runs great until I get to an early step- Partitioning the HDD?! It > > shows there are 475000MB available, but won't let me create a partition, > > or > > just [enter] and move along. > > > > I'd appreciate any pointers! Thanks! > > >
Guest JS Posted September 26, 2007 Posted September 26, 2007 Re: XP Pro Setup Halts at Partition step?! Clearly there is something wrong, the BIOS shows the drive size correctly but Windows does not. Take a look at the Clean Install setup guide at these sites and see if it is of any help. From Michael Steven's: http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html more info: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/XPClean.htm and: http://www.theeldergeek.com/clean_installation_of_windows_xp.htm also: http://www.bootdisk.com/ Also do you have a disk with the drivers (motherboard, Video, Sound, Network Card, Etc.) if not you will most likely need these during the install. JS "Isaac" <Isaac@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:5C569B98-DA5C-433D-B12E-959D63AC4173@microsoft.com... > Thanks JS- > > The new hard drive is a 120G WD- the old was a 30G Toshiba. > > Looking at the Windows CD- I believe it's an original (Version 2002). > > BIOS shows this: (I don't think I interperet it well) > > IDE Adapter 0 Master [120034MB] > IDE Adapter 1 Master [CD-ROM] > (below that) > Total Memory: 255MB > > In the setup partition setup screen where I get trapped- the unpartitioned > space is 694097MB? > > What do you think? > > Isaac > > > > > "JS" wrote: > >> Does the BIOS show the full size of the new hard drive? >> What service pack (original XP CD, SP1 CD or SP2 CD) is your Windows CD? >> What was the size of your old hard drive? >> >> JS >> >> "Isaac" <Isaac@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message >> news:1399E9A5-E0EC-4EF0-A558-B59126972974@microsoft.com... >> > Hello, >> > >> > I'm just replaced a HDD in my 4yr/o gateway laptop, and am attempting >> > to >> > re-install XP Pro via the CD. >> > >> > Setup runs great until I get to an early step- Partitioning the HDD?! >> > It >> > shows there are 475000MB available, but won't let me create a >> > partition, >> > or >> > just [enter] and move along. >> > >> > I'd appreciate any pointers! Thanks! >> >> >>
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