hard drive issues, help!

[aferdowsi]

Okay, I have the 200GB Maxtor SATA drive and ASUS P4P800-E Deluxe. I set my new computer up and the bios showed it as 200GB. Then I set up XP and during setup it said the drive was 130GB but I proceeded anyway formatting with NTFS. Now, in XP it shows as 130GB. So I flashed the bios with the newest version and updated to SP1 but the drive still shows as 130gb. What do I need to do to get the 70 remaining gigs to show up? Thanks in advance.

 

[jdogg707]

Hmmm, you may need to use the Floppy Disk that came with your mobo to install the drivers for it, before you enter into formatting the drive (With Floppy inserted hit F6 at the first blue screen of the XP setup). If this doesn't work, you could try using something like Partition Magic which will format the existing space and then once formatted you could merge your existing partition with the new one.