BigZed Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 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 installationand a lot of data in one partition.It suffered a fatal crash i was not able to recover, i have now to installon that same drive from scratch, without losing the data.I now have a XP SP2 integrated bootable CD, that's because i heardthat SP2 will install no problems from scratch on Big LBA drives.QuestionI tried an install on a small drive (12 gb) and it is indeed installed asWindows XP SP2, but the EnableBigLba registry key is nowhere to befound. Is that normal? Can i go and try install on the large drive without risking data loss? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gosh Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 XP RTM - only supported up to 127 gigs out of boxXP SP1 - when you slipstream sp1 into xp then do a clean install, supports over 127 gigsxP SP2, 3 - same thing-gosh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigZed Posted January 1, 2008 Author Share Posted January 1, 2008 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 theforum dwellers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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