XP (without SP1 or SP2) has no support for both SATA and large drives. There is also other issues such as the owner picking FAT32 for the partition.
Bob
I know this is almost the same as the other tread but my case i feel is a little different with the computer i have.
I got an older comp from my brother and i was re-installing windows xp home and he had this 200 as his main but it was partitioned before and i wanted just one big drive.
when i installed windows it only read as 31.4
i have loaded new BIOS, i low level formatted using Maxblast4 and re-installed after that. im wondering if the upgrade disk it too old the disk is even before SP1 or if the drive is just going bad
Dell Optiplex GX240 1.6 GHz
512 RAM
200 GB Maxtor drive
any help would be great

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