A7N8x Deluxe Question Cart before the horse problem.

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I have this MB under the tree with a 3000+, Radeon 9800 Pro, Maxtor
160 Ultra IDE HD.

Is there anything special that Ineed to do to get this thing up and
running?

THe instructions in the MAxtor manual says that I need to install XP
and SP1 to enable the entire 160 GB. Is that necessary since I want to
partition the 160 into 3 partitions and install XP on one partition.
Some how I must put the cart before the horse or What?

Has there been problems with the Radeon with this board?
 
You will never get 160 Gb on a 160Gb HD, never 120 on a 120
HD..........................and so on.
The size quoted is unformatted.
 
Nero said:
You will never get 160 Gb on a 160Gb HD, never 120 on a 120
HD..........................and so on.
The size quoted is unformatted.
Click to expand...

And usually in Engineering GB, not Computer Scientist GB.

Engineering GB = 10^9, CD GB = 2^30

10^9 / 2^30 = 0.931

160GB * 0.931 = 149GiB

Ben
 
I have this MB under the tree with a 3000+, Radeon 9800 Pro, Maxtor
160 Ultra IDE HD.

Is there anything special that Ineed to do to get this thing up and
running?

THe instructions in the MAxtor manual says that I need to install XP
and SP1 to enable the entire 160 GB. Is that necessary since I want to
partition the 160 into 3 partitions and install XP on one partition.
Some how I must put the cart before the horse or What?

Has there been problems with the Radeon with this board?
Click to expand...


The problem I might have is the 137GB boundry without SP1 installed.
How do I format the HD prior to installing XP w/ SP1
 
If, you can either get or make a slipstreamed SP1 version of Windows XP.
See: http://www.theeldergeek.com/slipstreamed_xpsp1_cd.htm

Most XP CD's out now are already slipstreamed (well the ones I have are).

OR

Do as many people do and format the disc drive with more than one partition.
Many find that a large C drive is not much help & prefer to segregate System
from Data so have say 8 or 12GB C drives with the rest of the disc
partitioned as needed. During installation create only the initial C drive
with ample space and install there. Once XP is in, bung SP1a in immediately
and you can then partition the rest of the disc - don't forget the swapfile
will be 1.5 * memory size so that will hog a big chunk of C.

OR

Another option is to use the diskpart.exe extend command that is documented
in XP Help. If you start with a 12 GB partition and still want it to cover
the remainder of the disc, then install XP to a nominal sized C partition,
install SP1a then running the diskpart.exe /extend.

An excerpt:

Extends the volume with focus into next contiguous unallocated space. For
basic volumes, the unallocated space must be on the same disk as, and must
follow (be of higher sector offset than) the partition with focus. A dynamic
simple or spanned volume can be extended to any empty space on any dynamic
disk. Using this command, you can extend an existing volume into newly
created space.

If the partition was previously formatted with the NTFS file system, the
file system is automatically extended to occupy the larger partition. No
data loss occurs. If the partition was previously formatted with any file
system format other than NTFS, the command fails with no change to the
partition.

You cannot extend the current system or boot partitions.

Syntax
extend [size=n] [disk=n] [noerr]


- Tim
 
The problem I might have is the 137GB boundry without SP1 installed.
How do I format the HD prior to installing XP w/ SP1
Click to expand...

The HDD should come with a floppy disk with management tools on it, that
should let you partition and format the drive I would think.

Ed
 
=|[ Ben Pope's ]|= said:
Nero said:
You will never get 160 Gb on a 160Gb HD, never 120 on a 120
HD..........................and so on.
The size quoted is unformatted.
Click to expand...

And usually in Engineering GB, not Computer Scientist GB.

Engineering GB = 10^9, CD GB = 2^30

10^9 / 2^30 = 0.931

160GB * 0.931 = 149GiB

Ben
Click to expand...

Big deal :p

....the question - Ive heard that making small partitions on a big drive
doesnt avoid the need to update for drive size support.
Maybe ~check 48bit support is set in OS, make smallish partition for OS and
install and update that as necessary, then rest of drive will be fit to
format and work with?
 
=|[ Nero's ]|= said:
You will never get 160 Gb on a 160Gb HD, never 120 on a 120
HD..........................and so on.
The size quoted is unformatted.
Click to expand...

Two words - NTFS Compression ;]
 
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