Q: I recently received a new PC together, which I installed a 200GB SATA HD. Anywho, when I was installing XP Pro, but saw only unpartitioned space of 130GB. Having no other job I had just the 130GB partition. To my surprise, when I was in the disk manager once my PC up and running was not showing the other 70GB of unpartitioned space. It was not until I installed SP2 the other 70 showed up. So I went ahead and partitioned the space.
The problem is that the scenario that I hoped was a 50GB partition for apps and games, and the other 150 would be an FTP server.
So my question to you, if I go back and reinstall XP Pro, will see all 200GB partition and leave me the way I want to go from the beginning? Is there another free way to remove existing partitions and re-partition the way I want them together? Im not really worried about losing files because there is not much on my hard drive anyway.
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Re:Originally posted by: guy
Besides slipstreaming, if I were just to go back and re-install XP and do what guy suggests, will that work?
Yep. Just make a 10Gb (or so) partition* for Windows within Setup (after removing all other partitions), then once you're in Windows, install SP2 and create the larger partition.
* 10Gb works well for me- I don't install programs on C: 
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Re:Couldn't you just install the SATA drive as a single RAID device? That should get around the IDE issue of 137GB limit pre-Win2K SP 4/XP SP 1-2(?)
Just do a 15-20 OS partition, 40-50 Games, and (After SP2)Whatever is left. It's really 180ish usable. As 200GB is marked as 1000MBs/GB not 1024MBs/GB.
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Edit: Was thinking about it, and I don't believe that windows will allow you to change your OS partition size. As the only way within windows is through dynamic disks, which IIRC cannot be done on the OS partition. Everything else you can change later if you convert to dynamic disks.
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Re:Yes…just install SP2 before you open Disk manager to create the 150GB partition.
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Re:Besides slipstreaming, if I were just to go back and re-install XP and do what guy suggests, will that work?
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Re:Originally posted by: guy
Why can't the regular WindowsXP see 200GB's of hard disk space?
Because it was written in a time when 40GB hard drives were large.
It sees up to 128GB or so; over that, you need the slipstreamed SP1 or SP2 to see the entire drive.
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Re:Why can't the regular WindowsXP see 200GB's of hard disk space?
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Re:slipstream sp2 on to your xp cd & setup will see the fully capacity of your hdd.
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Re:Originally posted by: guy
If you have SP2 slipstreamed into XP it may see the whole drive on install but I am not 100% sure on that.
On the other hand, why not just do the install on a 50GB partition and leave the rest alone until you have SP2 installed and use disk manager to create your 150GB partition then.
Um…er…*cough*…because I'm an idiot? That's what I'm shooting for the second time around. Will I be able to do that?
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Re:If you have SP2 slipstreamed into XP it may see the whole drive on install but I am not 100% sure on that.
On the other hand, why not just do the install on a 50GB partition and leave the rest alone until you have SP2 installed and use disk manager to create your 150GB partition then.
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