250gb western digital hard drive showing as 128gb

[amanua]

I purchased a western digital ide 250gb hard drive and put it in a romovable enclosure so that I can remove as and when needed and set the jumper as cable select.
I booted the system and from the disk management formatted the drive but it showed up as 128gb size.The system is running windows 2000 professional and I am using it as a backup computer for the network.
Any reason for the drive size to be almost half the original and is there any way I can fix the problem.

 

[wolluf]

what service pack are you running? Needs to be SP3 or later to see all of drive > 128Gb.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098

may be useful

 

[acewarlock]

It should be set a Master.
Did you check the Partion to see if it is all used or is there some not being used.




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