400gb hard drive showing up as 127gb?

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ive just bought a new hard drive which is Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 11 400GB 6H400F0 SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM

my motherboard is a EVGA nForce 680 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2
when i try to install windows xp i install the seriel ATA (150/300)Raid drivers that come with the motherboard on a floppy, bios finds the hard drive as 400gb but when i try to load up windows i get the blue screen of death everytime saying un-mountable_ boot_ volume stop:(0x893499E0,0XC000014F,0X00000000,0X00000000) :confused: :mad:

If i install windows without raid drivers everything works fine apart from my hard drive is only reconised as 127gb. :confused:

is this a faulty hard drive in anyway or me not doing something right.
please help many thanks.
 
thanks for quick reply

i forgot to mention after formatting the hard disk and i try to install xp again without the raid drivers bios can only see a drive of 127gb where as if i install raid drivers bios sees 400gb.
 
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