[slm_satish]

hi..
i have a HP pavilion a6450 desktop.

My chipset is nforce630i.

it has a 320GB 3G samsung harddisk with two preloaded partitions.

C:289GB and DFactory_Image)9.02GB

I tried to install XP with XP installation CD...

While doing so in the option for where to install XP i was shown a partioned space of only 131GB out of 320GB.

Anyhow i continued the installation by partitioning the 131GB into 4 drives using NTFS.

Everything went fine and i found out the drivers for the hardwares and installed except for 1 Exclamation in Device Manager for PCI Bridge.

Now is there any way i could recover the rest of the space (around 170GB) of my hard disk without uninstalling XP?

When i unzipped the setup file of my chipset there were files for RAID, SATA-IDE and SATA driver files(hope these are the driver files). Will it be useful in any way? If so how can i use them?

kindly help me.... thanks in advance.

 

[Deleted090308]

Re: Installing Windows XP Over Vista?

Welcome to TSF. :wave:

Install Service pack 3 for XP. (support for drives larger than 137GB was introduced with SP 1)

Then format the rest of the HDD in DIsk management.

How to use Disk Management to configure basic disks in Windows XP

 

[slm_satish]

Re: Installing Windows XP Over Vista?

Thanks i got the prolem solved..... i installed XP SP1 and then using Partition Manager i formatted the Hard Disk. Now i have a space of 293GB. Thanks a lot.

 

[Deleted090308]

Re: Installing Windows XP Over Vista?

You're welcome. :smile: