500 gigs of trouble

Hey everybody I have a 500GB SATA drive I am trying to load xp on. I installed the drive on SATA 4 so I could partition it 100gb on par 1 and the rest on par 2 cuz I know xp has a hard time with that big a drive without sp1,2,or 3. I used Partition Master by EASEUS, Which I have had real good luck with in the past. My BIOS sees the whole 500 so I know thats not it. But, I still get the blue screen of death,(shut down or be damned) when I boot from the XP install cd. Any help with this will earn my eternal gratitued.

 

The original (pre-Service Pack) version didn't have SATA controller drivers, you needed to load the drivers from a floppy disk. Slipstream SP3 as suggested.

 

I read this post with a lot of interest as I recently built a new PC which as a 500GB SATA HDD.
I decided to partition the HDD to imitate the way my previous PC was (it had 2 HDDs each 160GB and the first partitioned into 2 logical drives and the second into 3 logical drives)

Quite by accident I created the first partition at 87GB - I didn't realise that xp has a hard time with that big a drive without sp1,2,or 3 (as Jeffrey states) although I have SP2, 2 and 3 installed.

HOWEVER are there any know problems with HDD/s or partitions over a particular size with other applications? If so how do you get around the restriction of not being able to have more than 4 partitions on a HDD?

 

Hey guys Thanks for the help ,but I only have the lone XP disc no sp @ all therefor no slipstream. The reason I was trying this was I went and got the upgrade to 7 and the drive so I could well, upgrade, and that in itself is the problem. Guess i'll just use the 500 for data. Again thanks for the help. Jeffrey

 

Thanks Christer
Do primary and extended (logical) drives behave any differently eg is the read/write rates the same or are there any disadvantages using either?
I now have my HDD partitioned into 4 primary drives even though I don't intend to (at this time) using multiple operating systems therefore could use extended logical drives).
Also is it a bad idea to have a mix of primary and extended logical drives eg. Partition C: primary, partition D: primary, partition E: extended, partition F: extended.
I just want to get my head around (and also learn) the pros and cons of using each type.
Thanks

 

That is the point of Christer's link, slip-streaming the Service Pack 3 onto the original version of XP, so that it is then an SP3 Windows XP disk. If you have any computer knowledgeable friends or family, ask them if they have done it before and if they could help you, it's not very hard.

Matt