I have found the application partitioning tools such as FDISK, and DM as well as the GHOST software does not seem to support the new 250GB SATA hard drive. How will the 250g hard drive partition?
 SATA hard drives support these software tools. The use of such software, many problems occur on the South Bridge ICH5 motherboard, because they are based on the DOS platform, you must use compatibility mode (Compatible Mode), when set to enhanced mode (Enhanced Mode) will be triggered.
In addition, the use of 160GB and larger capacity SATA drives, due to FDISK (Windows 98 version that is included) and the DM type of partition software release earlier, and therefore it can not properly support 48bit addressing larger than 137GB hard drive, there are may lead to inexplicable failures, the most appropriate way is to install SP1 or SP2 patch hit the Windows XP (or hit SP4 patched Windows 2000), before the installation of the system district only one partition to install the system.
After installed system, modify the registry, through the “Start → Run”, type regedt32 command, open the Registry Editor, in the [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Services \ Atapi \ Parameters] sub-key under the new one, name EnableBigLba, value of type DWORD, the value of 1. Then use the “Start → Control Panel → Administrative Tools → Computer Management” in the “Disk Management” feature to create the remaining partitions.
