I am in the process of moving my Win ZP from my 5-year old system to a new system which has a 500GB SATA drive. I am using the original 5+ year old Win XP Pro CD (pre-SP2).
I tried to install Win XP from this original CD. Part-way through the installation, it gave the size of Disk 0 @ ID 0 on Bus 0 on atapi [MBR] as 131,069MB which looks to me to be about 130GB, not 500! I did a quick format and preceded with the install. Later, I got a Windows Install error (blue screen) saying that "A problem has been detected & windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer." etc, etc.
Could this problem be the fact that the original Win XP Pro doesn't recognize a SATA hard drive?
Could anyone advise me how I could get an installation CD which has the updates such that a SATA drive will be recognized? I was hoping not to have to go out and buy a second copy of Win XP since I will be decommisioning my current system.
Thanks for any help you can give.
I tried to install Win XP from this original CD. Part-way through the installation, it gave the size of Disk 0 @ ID 0 on Bus 0 on atapi [MBR] as 131,069MB which looks to me to be about 130GB, not 500! I did a quick format and preceded with the install. Later, I got a Windows Install error (blue screen) saying that "A problem has been detected & windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer." etc, etc.
Could this problem be the fact that the original Win XP Pro doesn't recognize a SATA hard drive?
Could anyone advise me how I could get an installation CD which has the updates such that a SATA drive will be recognized? I was hoping not to have to go out and buy a second copy of Win XP since I will be decommisioning my current system.
Thanks for any help you can give.