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rdagger:

You should try formatting the drive with Seagate DiscWizard:
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/utils.html

krick:

The limit is 128 *true* gigabytes.

This is equal to approximately 137 *advertising* gigabytes.

This limit is imposed by the ATA LBA32 addressing scheme.

To get past this limit, you need both hardware and software capable of addressing using LBA48.

This is why most large retail drives shipped with their own IDE interface cards when they first came out.

More info available here...

http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_drives/hard_drive_size_barriers.htm

Layer01:

whoa! is there anything you guys dont know lol  ;D

well my mobo is fairly new i assume since its socket 754 (running AMD athlon 64 2800+) it has PCI slots so i would assume it would be fairly new...
but maybe it is this IDE thing... as this is the first time i've built a Pc from scratch so it is possible i screwed up somwhere there....see i have two IDE slots on the mobo and i atm have IDE 1 running to the DVD rom set to slave, and IDE 2 on the HDD which i am not sure but i have  a feeling its also set to slave, well i left it on whatever it was on when i opened it ( bad text art here --->  I {I} III  i think this was what it was on and seeing as it had 4 pins not 3 i left it  in case i busted it or somthing.)

i've tried Partition magic and that diskmgmt.msc and both showed it at 130 gig max size 127 actually available to the OS.
the mobo is a ASUS K8V-X
the HDD is  a SeaGate Baracuda 200gig HDD model num: ST3200822A (though it might have been 8T320022A couldnt quite see if it was  aS or an 8 but i think it was an S)

in the mean time i will check out ythose links

EDIT: dont know if this makes any diff, i would not think it would but i ahve not yet bothered to add SP2

crashwg:

My buddies wife just got a 200gb HD not too long ago and had the same problem.  She contacted the guy who sold it to her, who is a computer repair guy, and he told her that she needed to upgrade to service pack 2...

Unfortunatly for her she is unable to do that because she's running Windows XP Pirate Edition.

Anyways, hope that helps.  Don't take my word for it either, remember I'm the third person in this game of Telephone!

Goz:

Some drives such as Toshiba's / IBM's have a bank of jumpers that determine the size of the drive.

-Goz

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