300GB Hard Drive Install with Windows XP Professional Original Release

what brand HDD is the 300G and is it USB? Also, I think your best download is SP

It is a Maxtor Internal HDD.  It is also the primary.  Currently there is no OS installed.  I need to install the OS with the orginal installation disk provided by Dell but the OS is the XP Original release and it does not have the new drivers for NTFS formatting of big drives.

What are the specs on your Dell? Model ie:dimension, number ie: xps t___, cpu internal speed, front side bus, and most important--IDE controller specs (ATA or DMA is it 100mhz etc., bios version in setup will come into play also). I think this can be done using your original xp disk in a roundabout way without having to mess with service pack 1. Does your system already have 40 pin 80 conductor cable ribbon to the HDD? An easy way to solve this real fast is to buy an ATA RAID controller card which fits PCI slots (easy to install). But let me the above specs and we'll see if we can get it to set up through your board IED first.

thanx, eek7

48 Bit LBA is NOT SUPPORTED and will NOT work with Non SP1 or SP2 XP.
This is not an option.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B303013

Windows XP SP1 includes 48-bit LBA support for ATAPI disk drives. With this support, you can use hard disks that are larger than the current 137 GB limit. By default, support is enabled in SP1. To determine if you are running SP1, right-click My Computer and then click Properties. On the General tab, Service Pack 1 will be listed under "System."

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331958/

If your computer has an ATA Packet Interface (ATAPI) hard disk that is larger than 137 gigabytes (GB), you may experience any of the following symptoms:• Your computer may restart instead of resuming from hibernation.
• You may experience hard disk corruption when your computer enters either standby or hibernation.
• You may experience hard disk corruption when Windows XP writes a memory dump file as a result of an unrecoverable Windows error (or Stop error)
Note If you experience hard disk corruption, you may also experience other symptoms including problems starting, restarting, or shutting down Windows XP, problems running programs, or problems opening or saving documents.
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CAUSE
The ATAPI driver for Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) does not use 48-bit Logical Block Addressing (LBA) when it writes memory dump files or hibernation files. Additionally, the flush cache command is not issued to a large hard disk that has 48-bit LBA enabled when Windows XP enters standby or hibernation.

By default, the original release version of Windows XP Home Edition and of Windows XP Professional do not have 48-bit LBA support. Your computer must meet the following requirements to use 48-bit LBA ATAPI support: • 48-bit LBA-compatible BIOS.
• 137-GB hard disk or larger.
• You must have Windows XP SP1 installed.
For the original release version of Windows XP Home Edition or of Windows XP Professional, you can enable 48-bit LBA for testing purposes. To do this, set the EnableBigLba registry value to 1 in the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Atapi\Parameters\
Warning Data corruption may occur if either of the following conditions is true:• You use this registry value to enable 48-bit LBA support in the original release version of Windows XP Home Edition or of Windows XP Professional.
• You install an earlier version of Windows on a disk partition that was previously created by a 48-bit aware operating system, such as Windows XP SP1. And that disk partition is equal to or larger than the current addressable limit of 137 GB.
Note The previous registry setting is ignored in Windows XP SP1 and later. If you try to enable the 48-bit LBA ATAPI support in the original release version of Windows XP Home Edition or of Windows XP Professional by editing the previous registry setting, and you did not meet the minimum requirements, the following issues may occur: • The registry value EnableBigLba is disabled. If you have a 48-bit compatible BIOS that can support a hard disk that has a capacity that is greater than 137 GB, only the first 137 GB of the hard disk are addressable. The rest of the hard disk is not used. 
• The registry value EnableBigLba is enabled, but you do not have a 48-bit LBA compatible BIOS and the capacity of the hard disk is not greater than 137 GB.

If you enable the 48-bit LBA ATAPI support by editing the registry setting, but you lack both a 48-bit LBA compatible BIOS and a hard disk that has a capacity that is see comment than 137 GB, you have not changed the system. The hard disk continues to function as a standard hard disk. 
• The registry value EnableBigLba is enabled without a 48-bit LBA compatible BIOS, but you have a hard disk with a capacity that is larger than 137 GB.

If you enable 48-bit ATAPI support in the registry and you have a hard disk that has a capacity that is see comment than 137 GB, but you do not have a 48-bit LBA compatible BIOS, only the first 137 GB of the hard disk are addressable. The remainder of the hard disk is not used.

 

Yes you are correct speedstep but the solution i was trying to come up with is to use the original HDD to install xp. At that point he can then go get sp2, make the necessary adjustments you just spoke of and then add the 300g hdd. Yes it will be a primary slave but with a new install of xp onto it, he can shut down and switch it to the primary because at this point he has no o/s. Before an xp install is attempted though, I would recommend a bios update and make sure the cable is ata. I have noticed Dell was famous for sending out the older sytems w/o ata cables and using 40 conductor to the hard drive. But we still don't know his system model yet or current loaded bios. Speedstep, let me know if I have missed something here or this plan has holes in it cause i'm kinda new to this game.

thanx, eek7