Flint,
I haven't seen one of those CDs in years. Seriously. They stopped making them 7 years ago. The patch was included in SP2, which came out in 2004. They haven't had those CDs available in a few years
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There were some older Dell models that had the issue in hardware too, which is why I specifically mentioned the BIOS.
Better to just grab a copy of AutoStreamer or a similar program, integrate SP3 into a copy of your installation CD using a process called "slipstreaming", and install that way.
I have had very bad experience with partition managers on boot volumes. You are better off installing onto the full 500GB and then working from there. The only programs that I have found to work even somewhat correctly were the Western Digital drive rescue programs for straight drive upgrades on a PC, and I used those under Windows 2000 Professional with the W2K version of the patch.
Even then, I saw issues with programs that used Microsoft Installer "reinstalling" themselves, specifically Visual Studio.
Slipstream it, do it right, and do it once
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Originally Posted by Flint
It's an xfx nForce SLI, overclockers mobo--I don't think it has an "older BIOS" on it.
I thought the "127 GB drive" symptom was a known limitation of pre-service pack XP.
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