"twjeff" <twjeff@discussions.microsoft.com> 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..

XP needs to be at SP1 or SP2 to see the full capacity of the drive. Create
an installation CD that has SP2 integrated on it. The process to do this is
called slipstreaming. Autostreamer makes it easier to do. And then follow
John John's advice to load the drivers using F6 during the install.

Slipstreaming

http://www.theeldergeek.com/slipstreamed_xpsp2_cd.htm
http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/

Autostreamer
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/1092632287/1
http://www.simplyguides.net/guides/u...ostreamer.html
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=223562

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]