Maxtor HDD issue

I just got my P4 and Corsair 512MB in. I have a 200GB Maxtor HDD and the BIOS reads it fine. But when I install Win XP for the first time, it only recognize 130GB. Why is it reading only 130GB when it should be 200GB? I'm running it in the IDE1 slot and the CDRW is on slave. Is there something I'm missing?

idk why your hardrive is doing that but your cdrw doesn't needto be on slave if you only have one disk drive.It should be on master or single i doubt that is what the problem is but just letting you know.A hardrive and cd-rom or cdrw are two seperate things they dont' need to be set so one is master and the other slave unless you have more than one hardrive you set one hardrive on slave and one on master or for a cd-rom and cdrw you do the same thing. jumper setting don't have anything to do with your other drives unless it is the same drive.

I know I could have put the CDRW on IDE2 and set the CDRW to primary. But since I have the CDRW on the same IDE Cable. I have to set it to slave since the HDD is primary. The question at hand is why is Win XP only recongizing 130GB?

sorry at the last words i meant the same drive TYPE. haha.

oh in that yeah you have to do it like that. but idk why it would only recognice it as 130gb when you are on windows like right now if you go to the drive in my computer it says that??????

Well, I'm not at my computer right now. Upon installing a fresh HDD, I chose Win XP. The first few screen tells you which partition you want the OS on. Now that's where it only reads a total of 130GB. I went ahead and made a 10GB, 10GB, 15GB and the rest is only 95GB and put the OS on the 10GB partition.

Might be your mobo. Some don't support that big of a drive unless you flash the BIOS. Check what revision of BIOS you have loaded, then go to their website. 9 chances out of 10 you have an older revision and a later one will add drive support in the range of your drive.

I'm using the new Gigabyte 8inxp e7205. The Bios is actually reading the harddrive at 203GB. I was speakin to the techs at my job and they said that i need to plug in the Promise control that i think i got with my harddrive in the PCI slot. They said the OS for some reason does not recongize such a large harddrive. I think it would be better to plug in the Promise control. That way i could actually get the ATA 133. My IDE slots only max out at 100.

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I know there's an address space limit due to IDE 32-bit addressing scheme, but I believe that is limited to 160gb.

Thank god SerialATA has 48-bit addressing. Which allows for up to 144PB

Edit: oh no wait I'm wrong, it's 28-bit addressing...which puts it at a 137gb limit, which seems to be this guys problem. sorry dude, but it seems your bios is what is limiting you here. I think RAID has a larger addressing scheme. Might want to think about that

You're right. I plugged the HDD in the RAID controller and now I'm reading 194GB. The other choice that some people were telling me was to install the Promise card into the PCI slot. I figured I'd try the RAID controller first and its working smoothly.