400gb hard drive showing up as 127gb?

[judmann]

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 stop0x893499E0,0XC000014F,0X00000000,0X00000000)

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

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

 

[rpstewart]

Pre SP1 versions of XP are only able to recognise HDDs up to 127Gb. There are ways round this:

• Create an XP install CD with SP2 slipstreamed into it (google has plenty of links)
• Create a C: of less than 127Gb and then partition the rest of the space as D: once XP is installed and SP2'd
• As above but use Partition Magic to extend the C: into the empty space after SP2 has been installed.

You don't need the RAID drivers if you're running a single disk.

 

[judmann]

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.