Joined Dec 19, Messages 2, Will you give the hardware specs and the age of the computer. Have you tried altering the boot sequence so that you can boot to the CD directly? You don't really need the six bootdisks a '98 bootdisk will do. What is on the drive now, how big is it, and is it partitioned? Exalangumna said:. Bob Cerelli. Joined Nov 2, Messages 22, How are you partitioning and formatting the drive? Do you have any kind of Raid controller? That's interesting, whenever I try to run Smartdrv, it freezes.
Also, wehn I run mem, I have no reserved or upper memory. Could it be a memory problem? It said something about it when I tried the 6 floppy method. Can you give the details to - "It said something about it when I tried the 6 floppy method" Also, any more information regarding the drives you need to boot to the XP CD. No, this PC's home built, so no floppies came with it. Just as a test, what happens if you do something like: 1. FDISK and create something like a 10 gig partition on your hard drive 3.
Format the drive 4. Start the install from there. Not only are there more utilities on there but it starts much faster since it doesn't have to create the RAM disk and then expand the cab file from the floppy to that RAM disk. Can delete extended NTFS partitions. Let us know how you make out on the memory test. Has this machine had an operating system on it before Linux, perhaps?
Do you know exactly what motherboard you have? Since "It was a pain because I only have one floppy", just to save you time in the future, if you can't get your XP CD to boot, might want to pick up a couple more ;- Glad the idea of running smartdrv and yours of running the mem test may be getting you on the right track. But it still seems like there is something more going on. More problems with the solutions. Smartdrv lags. So I tried Memtest, which when burned to a CD, leaves no usable files.
Um, I never tried using Xcopy. What files exactly, or what dos commands should I use? Format then partition? Have you set the CD as the first bootable drive in the bios? Also I think CCT is suggesting you try formatting the partitions after partitioning, but that is normally not necessary - how did you do the partitioning? Also in the mists of time I seem to remember you cannot use large drives until you have reached SP3 of Win2K.
Possibly the solution is clear the HDD down completely no partitions , then boot off the CD and see what the install makes of it. It may only use part of the HDD, which is no problem because after updating to SP3 you can then carry on, partition and format the rest of the drive.
I found this in my notes - forgive me, copyright owner! Windows with Service Pack 3 or greater installation CD. EnableBigLba value added or changed in Windows registry. Windows Service Pack 3 or greater. When doing a new install of Windows with Service Pack 3 from the installation CD, the setup program will only allow you to create a single partition up to GB even though bit LBA is supported with Service Pack 3. This is a problem if would like to use your bit LBA hard drive at full capacity with a single partition.
You can solve this problem by using a 3rd party partition utility after Windows is installed to resize to full capacity the GB partition originally created during the install. Unfortunately, you cannot use any of the partition utilities provided by the hard drive manufacturers as none of the applications we tested support partition resizing.
Alternately, if you do not have access to a 3rd party partition utility, once Windows Service Pack 3 is installed, and EnableBigLba added and set in the Windows registry you can use the partition utility provided by your hard drive manufacturer to create a new partition from the space leftover after Windows install created the original GB partition.
EnableBigLba value added in Windows registry. Learn more. Asked 5 years, 3 months ago. Active 5 years, 3 months ago. Viewed times. Could not find place for swap file. Improve this question. Remus Rigo Remus Rigo 2, 8 8 gold badges 46 46 silver badges 57 57 bronze badges. How big is your HD and how is it partitioned. Is it formatted? And is d: a second harddisk, or a second partition?
Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. You might just squeeze it in if you use Hiren to format the drive as NTFS compressed: make sure you don't reformat during installation.
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