Need help getting xp to load up on a new HD 250 gig

Omnikron · Oct 24, 2004, 10:35 AM

Ok I went to fry's and picked up a nice 250 gig Maxtor HD. So my bud was helping me setup the drive we used the maxblaster tool to format the new driver and partition it in to 2 125 then we used the tool to copy the old info on my HD c driver on to the new HD. everything went well till we shut down the system and switch out the cables and set the new HD to master and took out the old HD. On boot up it went to the Win xp blue screen where the icons with your names should be but there were no icons I could use the mouse but that was it. The icon never came on with do I need to do to get this 250 HD to work? I read on the installation guide that xp and win 2000 cant see HD larger than 137 GB Im using win xp pro with sp1 is there something Im missing?

Nacht · Oct 24, 2004, 04:49 PM

No, they can see bigger than 137GB...i'm running a 200 right now, with only one partition.

I would recommend a clean install. Put your old HDD back in and copy all the stuff over that you want to keep...then clean install on the other partition.

If you need to keep your old OS, put your old HDD back in and get a copy of norton ghost or something similar. that will allow you to create a working image of your windows installation (im not sure if that's what you did already)

Omnikron · Oct 25, 2004, 05:57 AM

Ok I copy all the stuff I wanted to keep from my old HD. Now on the new HD it been formated to 2 partition one has the my old HD xp on it do I have to format that again and take it off and start a fresh install?

Lchevy79 · Oct 25, 2004, 07:03 AM

i had a buddy get a 200 gig for his machine even tho i made 2 partitions of 100 gig it would crash and formatt the drive due to the heads reconfiguring. we bought a pci ide card for him and did the bigdrive enabler from maxtor and all was ok after that. so now he has a 40 gig on ide1 for the os and 200 gig on the pci ide card for games

Nacht · Oct 25, 2004, 03:39 PM

just restart the system with the windows disk inside and you should see the standard setup display. just select the partition that you want to install to and your off

Oct 24, 2004, 10:35 AM	#1
Omnikron DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 40 Rep Power: 0	Need help getting xp to load up on a new HD 250 gig Ok I went to fry's and picked up a nice 250 gig Maxtor HD. So my bud was helping me setup the drive we used the maxblaster tool to format the new driver and partition it in to 2 125 then we used the tool to copy the old info on my HD c driver on to the new HD. everything went well till we shut down the system and switch out the cables and set the new HD to master and took out the old HD. On boot up it went to the Win xp blue screen where the icons with your names should be but there were no icons I could use the mouse but that was it. The icon never came on with do I need to do to get this 250 HD to work? I read on the installation guide that xp and win 2000 cant see HD larger than 137 GB Im using win xp pro with sp1 is there something Im missing? __________________ XP 2800 Barton @ xp 3000 ThermalTake Volcano 7 MSI KT3 ARU Ultra 512 ddr 333 Kingmax MSI RX9800PRO PLUS-TD 128 R360 core @ XT speeds 412 / 730 250 GB Maxtor Ultra ATA/133 SB Audigy 2 Zs 20" Dell 2001fp LCD Antec Super Lan Boy 2 Enermax PSU EG465P-VE FCA 460WATTS NEC DVD-RW 8X ND-2500A

Oct 25, 2004, 05:57 AM	Thread Starter #3
Omnikron DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 40 Rep Power: 0	Ok I copy all the stuff I wanted to keep from my old HD. Now on the new HD it been formated to 2 partition one has the my old HD xp on it do I have to format that again and take it off and start a fresh install? __________________ XP 2800 Barton @ xp 3000 ThermalTake Volcano 7 MSI KT3 ARU Ultra 512 ddr 333 Kingmax MSI RX9800PRO PLUS-TD 128 R360 core @ XT speeds 412 / 730 250 GB Maxtor Ultra ATA/133 SB Audigy 2 Zs 20" Dell 2001fp LCD Antec Super Lan Boy 2 Enermax PSU EG465P-VE FCA 460WATTS NEC DVD-RW 8X ND-2500A

Oct 25, 2004, 07:03 AM	#4
Lchevy79 -=[DHzer0point Team]=- Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 725 Rep Power: 0	i had a buddy get a 200 gig for his machine even tho i made 2 partitions of 100 gig it would crash and formatt the drive due to the heads reconfiguring. we bought a pci ide card for him and did the bigdrive enabler from maxtor and all was ok after that. so now he has a 40 gig on ide1 for the os and 200 gig on the pci ide card for games __________________ msi K7N2 delta2-AMD 2800xp@2083-1gig of pc2700ram -ati x850xt 256mb -Audigy mp3+ - 1 80gig maxtor 8mb and 1 250gig 16mb maxtor -48x24x48 buslink burner-and a lite on 4x +/- dvd burner xp home samsung lcd (19") 930b monitor

Oct 24, 2004, 04:49 PM	#2
Nacht ein Krieger Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Clemson Uni Posts: 3,127 Rep Power: 0	No, they can see bigger than 137GB...i'm running a 200 right now, with only one partition. I would recommend a clean install. Put your old HDD back in and copy all the stuff over that you want to keep...then clean install on the other partition. If you need to keep your old OS, put your old HDD back in and get a copy of norton ghost or something similar. that will allow you to create a working image of your windows installation (im not sure if that's what you did already)

Oct 25, 2004, 03:39 PM	#5
Nacht ein Krieger Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Clemson Uni Posts: 3,127 Rep Power: 0	just restart the system with the windows disk inside and you should see the standard setup display. just select the partition that you want to install to and your off