Slipstreamed SP2 CD and Big LBA registry key

[BigZed]

First of all, since it's my first post, Hi everyone

Background:

I have a 250 gb drive that once housed a cozy W2K SP4 installation

and a lot of data in one partition.

It suffered a fatal crash i was not able to recover, i have now to install

on that same drive from scratch, without losing the data.

I now have a XP SP2 integrated bootable CD, that's because i heard

that SP2 will install no problems from scratch on Big LBA drives.

Question

I tried an install on a small drive (12 gb) and it is indeed installed as

Windows XP SP2, but the EnableBigLba registry key is nowhere to be

found.

Is that normal?

Can i go and try install on the large drive without risking data loss?

[gosh]

XP RTM - only supported up to 127 gigs out of box

XP SP1 - when you slipstream sp1 into xp then do a clean install, supports over 127 gigs

xP SP2, 3 - same thing

-gosh

[BigZed]

So, nothing strange if the BigLba key does not appear in the registry?

Sorry to ask again but i heard of stories where even XP SP2 trashed

Hard drives and i was trying to find a way to double check this.

Thanks for your attention anyway, and happy new year to all the

forum dwellers