Trying to setup a new hard drive, having issue

[Cold Truth]

its a 160 gig western digital hard drive.

now when i go to install it it tells me need a windows xp service pack 1 disc to complete the installation since its over 137 gigs.... which i dont have. i try and download it but it doesnt seem to give me a file to download- it downloads it straight to my current hard drive, which does me no good. any ideas? anone got a disc that can send me a file i can burn to a disc?

 

[Fade]

What about installing the new drive as your secondary drive, then once it's setup, move it over to master?

 

[Cold Truth]

wouldnt i still need the service pack to complete the installation? i'll try it and see what happens.

by the way, when do i get my whip back?

 

[classic]

the service pack my help becasue that was one of the fixers(XP being able to see large drives)

also i dont know if you have done this already but if its an internal drive make sure you have the jumpers set correctly so its a slave. If not your PC will get confused and try to boot of it....

 

[lowlow]

i think it might be the 48-bit LBA, like class said it was one of the fixers in sp1 to enable it to see drives larger than 137. the 48-bit LBA only works if you are running Windows XP SP1 or later. that's why it asked for it. but if you download sp-1 and it still ain't work it may be that your system doesn't have a 48-bit LBA-compatible BIOS installed. This includes EIDE controller card BIOS. so you may need to find out if your motherboard, or PCI IDE controller supports 48-bit LBA.

 

[trez260]

its a 160 gig western digital hard drive.

now when i go to install it it tells me need a windows xp service pack 1 disc to complete the installation since its over 137 gigs.... which i dont have. i try and download it but it doesnt seem to give me a file to download- it downloads it straight to my current hard drive, which does me no good. any ideas? anone got a disc that can send me a file i can burn to a disc?

like class mentioned yo, you definitely need to get that sp1 or sp2 which you can download from microsoft.com (provided you have a legit version of xp) how old is your pc because alot of older joints will only see a maximum of 137GBs. partitioning your drive into two drive's may also get you around that problem, eitherway get that service pack. Peace.

 

[Cold Truth]

no legit version of windows.

 

[trez260]

check ya PM yo.

 

[5th Sequence]

Crazy. I just had this exact problem last week when my hard drive crashed. I bought a 160GB hard drive too. I got xp from a friend though and did a clean install. Trying to find a working non-legit version of xp when you need it is damn near impossible.

 

[trez260]

Crazy. I just had this exact problem last week when my hard drive crashed. I bought a 160GB hard drive too. I got xp from a friend though and did a clean install. Trying to find a working non-legit version of xp when you need it is damn near impossible.

how old is your pc, and if you already have xp you just need the latest sp2. peace.

 

[Burna]

What about installing the new drive as your secondary drive, then once it's setup, move it over to master?

exactly what i was about to say.

 

[5th Sequence]

how old is your pc, and if you already have xp you just need the latest sp2. peace.

It's only 2 years old. My computer was bought online and came with windows xp installed on it. I never recieved an xp disc and I emailed them about it (like what am I suppose to do in emergency situations like THIS) but I never heard back from them. I actually emailed them 4 times total and never heard shit from them. So I had a legit version of xp but since i had no cd I had to use a cracked version.

 

[trez260]

It's only 2 years old. My computer was bought online and came with windows xp installed on it. I never recieved an xp disc and I emailed them about it (like what am I suppose to do in emergency situations like THIS) but I never heard back from them. I actually emailed them 4 times total and never heard shit from them. So I had a legit version of xp but since i had no cd I had to use a cracked version.

have you installed that sp2?

 

[5th Sequence]

I had it installed before my hard drive crashed. I had to get a new hard drive so the installed windows xp on my crashed hard drive was useless. Was a very shitty experience.