I am trying to install a 500GB hard drive as a primary master drive on an older machine I built back in 2003. The system is a P4 with 1GB Ram 2.6 GHZ. Its a Shuttle motherboard P4X400 chipset. I installed the drive with the correct jumper settings and when I run the XP Setup disk it only shows as 114 GB. If I add it as a slave and run windows..it does not get detected ..even in the disk management. In the bios it shows properly as 500GB. I'm sure it has something to do with updating the bios but I checked for the latest updates and found out I had the latest. And unfortunately the latest doesn't seem to support the larger drives. Is there anything else that can be done so that
it's recognized by XP Setup properly. Its a Hitachi Deskstar drive and i've read that you can download a tool to change the drive settings in either bios or the drive. Anyways i'm out of ideas and was looking for some suggestions.
it's recognized by XP Setup properly. Its a Hitachi Deskstar drive and i've read that you can download a tool to change the drive settings in either bios or the drive. Anyways i'm out of ideas and was looking for some suggestions.