damn, I dont.. I hate them; in fact.

swapping a hard drive in a PC. A nice 160GB drive, bought it ages ago.

I stick it in, put the XP pro disc in and off we go.

oh dear, XP can only see 130GB of the drive.. so I flash the (ooooooold) bios with the latest, and the BIOS sees 160GB...  well, it did before anyway but latest BIOS cant hurt.

XP install starts again.......... still 130GB.

I google... oh, bummer...  the setup doesnt support > 130GB.

So I now install XP into a 10GB partition, so I can then slip-stream the SP2 into there and then get to reinstall it all over again... yiiippeeee...  

Good job my compy has a pair of 120GB drives then

Not a problem Ive encountered:

Lucky you

got it installed, running autostreamer now, to integrate SP2 onto the disc.

Can XP make a CD from an ISO file as standard with XPs built in burning?

or am I going to have to drag its sorry ass over the network and burn it here on my PC?

I think ill reinstall it tomorrow..  had enough M$ shenanigans for one day

try changing a CPU on a corporate OEM copy, it usually demands you reactivate the bloody thing.  That is annoying as the retail version has never asked me to, nor do my MSDN copies.   :?

Ive had that problem too.  Just create the partition you want windows on and leave the rest unformatted.  Once you stick SP2 on then you can reformat the rest within windows.

Obviously thats no good if you want one big 160gb partition.

The alternative is to do a 120 meg partition and use something like partition magic after installation to increase it to fill the spare volume.

Or boot up a live Ubuntu CD and use the partitioner (gparted) to alter the partition.

Quote from: snellgrovedamn, I dont.. I hate them; in fact.

swapping a hard drive in a PC. A nice 160GB drive, bought it ages ago.

I stick it in, put the XP pro disc in and off we go.

oh dear, XP can only see 130GB of the drive.. so I flash the (ooooooold) bios with the latest, and the BIOS sees 160GB...  well, it did before anyway but latest BIOS cant hurt.

XP install starts again.......... still 130GB.

I google... oh, bummer...  the setup doesnt support > 130GB.

So I now install XP into a 10GB partition, so I can then slip-stream the SP2 into there and then get to reinstall it all over again... yiiippeeee...  

Consider when pre sp1 xp was available (2000) > 130gb drives cost several hundred pounds, they were as rare as rocking horse sh*te in the home.

You are expected to update an operating system, at which point your entire harddrive will be detected for you to make use of. Granted without 3rd party tools you cant repartition to create one massive partiton but what you can do is convert your drive to a logical disk set it to dynamic and voila... one giant partition

Failing that use a free linux live cd to do it for you as max said

I think my main annoyance is that the XP installer looks like it was written in the 80s, and has the same functionality.

I had major headaches when getting my SATA drive working as I had the "Press F6 to install a driver" screen, and it required that I have the driver on a floppy disk.

my pc doesnt HAVE a floppy disk drive.

 

very annoying....

I have streamed the SP2 into the build now, and will re-install tonight ...hopefully it can see all of it and I can have a 160GB C: drive I knew I should try and convert my family to using Ubuntu :mrgreen:

You cant slag them off because their OS was released years ago and isnt bleeding edge like a linux beta distri.

IMO the number of die hard MS haters that will turncoat when they realise Vista is actually going to be the mutts nuts is going to be so high youll think this uncanny.

Why are you creating one partition on a 160GB drive, anyway? 10/10 for data security, genius.

Quote from: Clockd 0NeYou cant slag them off because their OS was released years ago and isnt bleeding edge like a linux beta distri.

IMO the number of die hard MS haters that will turncoat when they realise Vista is actually going to be the mutts nuts is going to be so high youll think this uncanny.

Doubt it, the beta isnt to oshabby, and much better than i was expecting.  However to have all the bells and whisltes on its gonna force an upgrade.  :\

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Quote from: Clockd 0NeYou cant slag them off because their OS was released years ago and isnt bleeding edge like a linux beta distri.

IMO the number of die hard MS haters that will turncoat when they realise Vista is actually going to be the mutts nuts is going to be so high youll think this uncanny.

Doubt it, the beta isnt to oshabby, and much better than i was expecting.  However to have all the bells and whisltes on its gonna force an upgrade.  :\

Fancy graphics doesnt make an OS and it is all scalable. The point is, its going to have all the bells and whistles and be more powerful than anything else weve seen before.

Indeed.  Strangely Im quite looking forward to seeing what they have accomplished.