> twjeff wrote:
>
>> I cannot get XP to intall on my new SATA drive. I have a brand new Asus
>> p5b deluxe motherboard, with a 320GB SataII HDD. It will only recognize
>> 131MB of this drive to partition... What gives? I thought this issue
>> was resolved already.... Please help! I only have my oritional XP disk,
>> which does not have big drive or SP 1 or 2 on it..


"John John" <audetweld@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote in message
news:eAyh9m3VHHA.4632@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Press F6 very early on during the Setup routine and feed it the SATA
> drivers. Pay close attention when the XP setup starts, early on at the
> bottom of the screen you will see a prompt telling you to press F6 to
> install Raid or Mass Storage Device drivers. You have to catch it at that
> time or else you will have to reboot and start the setup routine again.
> You MUST supply the drivers on a floppy diskette, the setup program will
> not accept the drivers from any other media source. The SATA drivers
> should be on your motherboard driver CD. Read the documentation for your
> mobo or go to the Asus web site and see if the drivers are available there
> for download. If you have no diskette drive you can temporarily fit one
> to the computer, if not you will have to slipstream the drivers to a
> Windows XP cd that you will have to burn.
>
> John


twjeff:
No, the problem is not recognition of your SATA HDD. Rather you've run up
against the large-capacity disk barrier because you hadn't SP1 or SP2
installed on your XP operating system at the time you installed your 320 GB
HDD.

Without SP1 or SP2, the system will recognize only up to (about) 137 GB (or
128 GB binary) of hard drive disk space.

So install SP2 to your system and the full capacity of your HDD will be
recognized. The remaining disk space above what is currently recognized will
be designated as "unallocated" disk space. So you will use XP's Disk
Management utility to partition/format that disk space. So at a minimum you
will have two partitions.
Anna