patio said:Who led you to believe that XP won't allow this ? ?
I've never heard of that. Just use your Win98 boot disk, FDisk and Format. make sure you enable large disk support, re-boot with the bootdisk and the Win98 cd in and choose #2 "start with CDRom support".
At the a: prompt type E: and hit enter.
At the E: prompt type setup and hit enter.
alidabiri said:that part is ok.
there's one problem though. i installed an 80-gig western digital hard drive before installing win-xp on this new machine (asus p5rd1-v, pent. 4). when i was fdisking, it showed up as a 32-gig hard drive. that's why i am trying to start over again. is there anyway to tell this machine the drive is 80g and not 32?