winxp installation and partition sizes

[brent smith]

when i install windows XP, and create a new NFS partition
on an empty drive, win xp will only all for a maximum of
2012mb partition when the hardrive is a 40gb capacity
drive. what do i do???

[Bill Crocker]

Are you booting from the WinXP CD-ROM? Is there any other partitions on the
hard drive that need to be deleted? Was the hard drive previously
partitioned with one of those partition-for-dummies utilities?

Bill Crocker


"brent smith" > wrote in message
...
> when i install windows XP, and create a new NFS partition
> on an empty drive, win xp will only all for a maximum of
> 2012mb partition when the hardrive is a 40gb capacity
> drive. what do i do???

[brent]

i am booting from the winxp installation cd. there are no
other partitions on the drive currently, the drive was
once partitioned using western digital's disk utility. but
before xp installation i wipped the drive including the
MBR by writing zeros to the drive.
now i have another problem, i put the drive into another
computer of my and used partiton magic to resize the nfs
partiton and now xp wont boot, i get a flash of a blue
screen of death upon startup and then it reboots. ah.
anyway, if anyone knows how i can go about fixing this
problem by using xp to install on a clean drive and create
a nfs partiton that will exceed the 2012mb cap ive been
getting id gladly start from scratch.
please email me at: with any help.
thanks!!
>-----Original Message-----
>Are you booting from the WinXP CD-ROM? Is there any
other partitions on the
>hard drive that need to be deleted? Was the hard drive
previously
>partitioned with one of those partition-for-dummies
utilities?
>
>Bill Crocker
>
>
>"brent smith" > wrote in message
...
>> when i install windows XP, and create a new NFS
partition
>> on an empty drive, win xp will only all for a maximum of
>> 2012mb partition when the hardrive is a 40gb capacity
>> drive. what do i do???
>
>
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