TheMajor
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ekÆsine said:I'm having a difficult time trying to figure out what you're saying theMajor, can you please clarify? If you're saying he can use diskpart to create his partitions than yes I would agree. what I was trying to make clear was that formatting and partitioning are 2 separate things.
What I cannot understand is why are you mixing NTFS with a partitioning utility? they are not related, you can't format a volume with NTFS using a partitioning program alone. and you can format a volume as NTFS on a partition no matter what partitioning program you used to create it.
I know the difference between partitioning and formatting. They are almost the same because you cannot create a partition without a filesystem. If you create a filesystem (ntfs or whatever) the filetable (or MFT) is created. If you create a partition you can choose FATx or NTFS in most partitioning programs/tools. FDISK program can delete NTFS partitions, it cannot create them (format usig NTFS) it can format an NTFS partition using FAT, that's the same as deleting it and creating a new FAT partition.
I was asking if you can create or format a partition/disk using NTFS in DISKPART (xp recovery console) I just found out its possible.
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You cannot install XP on another computer with SP2 and detect the full 250GB in your computer without SPx.
48bit LBA support is disabled without SP1 or SP2.
There is a registry hack wich enables 48bit LBA mode without installing a servicepack. You will be able to see drives over 137GB (like yours)
X-Setup has an option to change/add this registry setting.(www.x-setup.com) I am not sure if its safe, though. You should install SP1 (or SP2) and resize the partition afterwards (using a third party partitioning utility like PartitionMagic)
Another option is to creat multiple partitions before installing XP, or add them once you installed SP1 or SP2.
You can also slipstream SP1 or 2 to a copy of your XP disc, this will automatically detect the full 250GB on install.
You cannot format partitions bigger than 32GB when using FAT32 filesystem.