HardDrive Computer Issue

[skyxliner]

Computer Specs:
Motherboard: Asustek 845E
OS: Windows XP

I recently purchased a 160Gig WesternDigital Calvier Hard drive to replace my 40 Gig hard drive. When I reinstalled windows, windows partitianed my drive to be 130Gig.

Problem: How can I get the full amount of the hard drive i Purchased? Basiclly my motherboard, the bios doesn't support large hard drives past 130gig.

Attempts:
I have tried intel application accelerator and it says the hard drive is at 160gig while if you check in my computer, it is still 130gig.

I have also updated my bios to the newest avaliable on the asus website.

I have installed the CD that came with the harddrive to later find out that it has no use.

I Hope someone can help me with this... Gracias

 

[paparazi]

Try two partitions?
50/50
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[Freestone]

XP has to be at least at SP1 level in order to receive 48-bit LBA support which enables support for drives larger than 137GB.

See How to Enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing Support for ATAPI Disk Drives in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013

From this article:

Your computer must meet the following requirements to use 48-bit LBA ATAPI support:
• 48-bit LBA-compatible BIOS.
• 137-GB hard disk or larger.
• You must have Windows XP SP1 installed.

If your BIOS doesn't support 48-bit LBA, a possible alternative is to purchase an IDE add-on card that does provide support.

 

[skyxliner]

thanks for your reply its very much appreciated, well my main focus was to NOT split the hard drive up into two drives and bypass the windows xp partitian limit.

I was able to sucessfully do this by booting off the cd that came with the hard drive to create the partitian instead of letting windows xp do it. Then i would install xp normally afterward.

^ for all future people having this problem