XP Install Problem

I just purchased a new PC pre-loaded with Vista. I have resized it's partition (from within Vista) and go to install XP on a new partition. However, I believe I am running into the addressing cap of 137GB because the installer shows a blank drive of 137GB. When I tried created a partition on this it destroyed the Vista installation and I had to start over again with restore disks. All I have is restore disks for Vista, so I need to have that installed first.

SO my question is basically if there is something I can do from within the installation to fix the drive size limit on XP. Everything I find says to install SP2, which obviously cannot be done before the system is even installed. ANy help would be appreciated.

 

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Thanks for the replies, none were directly helpful but they at least sent me in the right direction. I ended up using a program called AutoStreamer to integrate SP2 into my XP CD.