SillyDog701

[Hallrick]

Help, I have just installed windows xp onto my freshly formatted pc, and it claims that I only have a 2gb hard drive instead of the 20 gb I know I have.

In the set up part of the install where it asks you to select a partition to install it onto it only recognises 2018 mb of free space.

I have tried to install 98 se back onto the machine and when I do this it fully recognises the 20 gb. Do i need to install some different drivers ??

I don't know if it helps but after i installed 98 i tried to install xp as an upgrade and this didn't work.

Any help is gratefully accepted.

Thanks
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[Mandrake]

Is your hard drive setup correctly in the bios? I'd suspect that is the problem . . .

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[Hallrick]

Thanks for coming back so soon, I am unsure about how it should be set up, why would it work for 98 and not for xp ?

This is a PC I have had built for me by a friend so the bios may well have been set up slightly differently. What sort of things should I be looking for in the Bios to check for errors ?

Thanks

Richard

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[Mandrake]

Well, I'd check that it is set for automatic detection, rather than defining the disk in the bios (it detects all disks and cd drives on boot each time), this works for me and my BIOS is from 2000 - It's an AWARD bios - pretty common stuff.

Failing that, I'd ensure that when your hard drive is formatted - use FDISK, and remove ALL partitions, so you should have a blank hard drive with no partitions (boot from a Win98 CD or Diskette and run FDISK), then put your XP cd in the drive - and the installation should start from that, and Windows XP setup will ask you to create a FAT32 or NTFS partition.

One of these methods should work you, best of luck.

-Jarrad

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