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My problem is solved. Thank you for all your help but it was a faulty drive! Go figure... But it's working fine now. Thanks! David

p.s. my system (test case) is a MSI KT6 Delta-FISR

It is the post which says 137.4GB, it's sort of an built-in sata function in bios. I've hooked the bad puppy up in my own system and no luck... also 137.4GB in Maxblast and about the same in XP/sp2. So, we're taking the drive back to the store to get another one of the same make to check that...

wolluf: yes I have tried that. And an error in the partion table is something I haven't thought of yet. Worth a try wiping it. Thanks!

Thank you all... I already thought about the jumper-scenario my self. But too bad, no jumpers. Actually, there are only two pins on the disk -- I doubt if it's wise to put a jumper on them as it might damage the disk? And wouldn't it be strange that if the drives capacity is limited, there's no...

p.s. Thanks Freestone, but that isn't the solution to my problem. I should mention that I formatted the (sata)drive with Maxblast4 (Maxtor program) so It has nothing to do with XP installation. Bios doesn't see it right. Beginning to think the disk may be faulty...

Thanks for reacting so soon. But it's certainly not an OS problem, since the OS isn't installed yet. What I ment with last sentence of previous post is that the sys. bios doesn't recognise the full 200GB... So Windows will automatically copy this info from bios, right? Anyway... I've done some...

Hi, I'm David, I joined this forum just now. I'm certainly not an expert, but I know enough to get by building and installing pc's. However, I've come across the same problem as mentioned before... That is to say - a friend of mine just bought a new k8nf-9 with a Maxtor diamondmax 10 200GB SATA...

Hi, I'm David, I joined this forum just now. I'm certainly not an expert, but I know enough to get by building and installing pc's. However, I've come across the same problem as mentioned here... That is to say - a friend of mine just bought a new k8nf-9 with a Maxtor diamondmax 10 200GB SATA...