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A Continuation from my Dead Hard Drive Thread ages ago.

The new Hard Drive arrived, 320 GB of big space :D

Installed Windows 98 SE on it no problem....

Installed (attempted) Windows XP on it and Problems.


Message on every boot after XP prepared itself on 98 was: UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME with lots of other text and suggestions.


IF anyone ever gets this message its one of several things said Microsoft:

Broken Disk
Incorrect drivers for IDE Controller
Wrong Cable; 40pin 40wire instead of 40pin 80wire = UDMA

BUT NO ONE ABSOLUTELY NO ONE thought that it might be to do with the fact that Early revisions of Windows XP cannot see drive space exceeding 131GB.

Thanks to the technical support at SCAN COMPUTERS for guiding me in the right direction.

Drives over 131 GB need Service Pack II. I had to figure out myself how to combine SP2 with a Standard WinXP install Disc.

I'm back :D what happened to my "Hot Babes Thread?" :mad:
 
Always sensible to have SP2 and any major patches slipstreamed into your xp install - then you're not vunerable during those first few minutes.

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sp2_slipstream.asp

That has to be the very best explaination of how to go about creating an SP2 slipstreamed XP CD. Can't imagine why you would still be using 98se though. That's coming upto being 10 years old and is totally of support from microsoft. If you have to have it available give it it's own 10gig partition.
 
Its on its own FAT32 14.99 Gig Partition and XP is on its own FAT32 24.99GB partition.

98se is there for when XP dies and it needs its older slower brother to rescue it, which is why they both on FAT32 Partitions.

The Partition with the programs on it is also FAT32, all other Storage drives are NTFS.

The viruses that cannot be removed while XP is running can be removed using 98se :) Is a method to my madness I promise :p

Furthermore the fact that 98se installed and saw the whole drive without any problems was evidence enough that the drive was fully functional and saved me having to send it back without proper testing/experimenting AND some of those legacy programs that don't want to play with XP.
 
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Always sensible to have SP2 and any major patches slipstreamed into your xp install - then you're not vunerable during those first few minutes.

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sp2_slipstream.asp

That has to be the very best explaination of how to go about creating an SP2 slipstreamed XP CD. Can't imagine why you would still be using 98se though. That's coming upto being 10 years old and is totally of support from microsoft. If you have to have it available give it it's own 10gig partition.
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Agreed, cracking article, it made creating the disc a piece of cake. Makes it much quicker to do a full install of XP SP2. Now all I need is a way to combine all the current updates onto the same disc and I'll be laughing ;)
 
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