ASRock Dual SATA & Spinpoint HD Problem

[Magic_x_uk]

I have the ASRock Dual sata mothebroard (all the rest of my PC is in sig)

Main HD is a 74GB Raptor
connected onto sata I socket 1,

Just brought last week and installed today a

Samsung SpinPoint P SP2504C 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache

from OcUK

now i have installed it onto the RED SATA II socket on the motherboard.

I can see and use my new HD in my computer

BUT, and here lies the problem

I have formated and am using NTFS

But if i right click the drive in My Computer

it says

71.7 MB USED


232 GB Free

I cannot see any files in there, nor if i enable "show all hidden files etc"

Why is this, Shouldnt it be 250GB free avaialble.

Or am i missing something


In Bios, everything is on Auto, dont have anywhere to physically put in the capacity.

using Bios ver P1.50


Whats wrong......

help.....

 

[Magic_x_uk]

Just checked and it is clicked in both hard drives, Raptor being BOOT and OS drive,

The new HD (Spinpoint) has 12% 28616 as "disk space to use" and monitoring.

So should i use this system restore even though its not the main HD ? just for storage ?

 

[Magic_x_uk]

Thanks all of you. Learn something new every day.

Now in the BIOS, it's (SATA II) in one of the option set as IDE, but you can choose SATA, should i change it, or just leave everything alone.

 

[Magic_x_uk]

tried that with the changing in the BIOS from IDE to sata and when Windows booted up, the drive was not even there ? seems to only be there in IDE

 

[Magic_x_uk]

Oh right, but it's all working at the moment (but in BIOS its called IDE) all seems fine. Just using that drive as a storage area, mp'3 , photos etc

seems to access everything instantly though.

Maybe i should leave things alone, ill only break it lol