Caviar Ide
Posted on Friday, September 19th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Trying to replace hard drive but I need XP SP 1 or higher. I have questions regarding this. Please help.?
I’m trying to replace my 80gig hard drive with a 500gig Western Digital Caviar SE IDE hard drive into my Dell Dimension 3000 desktop running XP, but when reading through the new hard drive manual, it says that I must have XP Service Pack 1 or higher in order to accommodate drives larger than 137gigs. The computer didn’t come with any Service Packs, just the regular Windows XP disc.
Is this something I can download and put onto a disc? And if so would the disc contain both Windows XP & the Service Pack or would I need both the original XP disc and the downloaded Service Pack disc? And if i wanted to get Service Pack 3 would i need to download and install 1 & 2 beforehand?
I’m writing this from the Family laptop as my desktop is out of commission right now while I try to switch out the hard drive.
I’ve never done anything like this. I’ve never even gone inside of a computer before so I’m lost on how to go about it?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
You will probably have sp1 and/or SP2 on the CD. if you have another computer go on the web and search “slipstreaming” you can blend sp2 and/or sp3 into windows install which makes it much easier and the slipstreamed CD is always available. Partition the drive into two or even three partitions or you will have trouble running scandisk and defrag. If you use the update outlined below method you will effectively be installing windows three times instead of once and if you need to re-install windows again you will not have the service packs available and will have to do it all again. With a slipstreamed cd you have a completely updated Windows XP installation disk ready at any time. If sp1 isn’t on the cd and only the 137gb are recognised you may lose your partition if you try to partition and format the drive under Sp1 or Sp2 and you will be back where you started.
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