For example the old issue of a partition over 127GB is well known with XP. This didn't work until later.
To do this properly we never create the partition or format it before we boot the XP CD. We supply a blank HDD with no partitions and then use the XP installer to create the partition and it will create the sizes that were supported on this OS.
I'm a little surprised after over a decade folk are still re-discovering this one.
Bob
My fresh xp installion setup with a new hard disk is hung up on the partition selection page.
When I select the unformatted partition of new hard disk, Setup reports disk does not contain an XP compatible partition.
When I preformatted the new HD with an external USB adapter on another computer to FTPS, I still get the same error report(non-compatible XP partition).
How do I properly format the new HD (as a system disk) so its acceptable to Setup?
The IDE hard disk is jumpered for cabling selection of Primary and Secondary drives(which was the previous jumpering).
Sinchi

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