Pre-SP2 detection?

[Zefan]

Bought a Spinpoint 250gb today. Bios detects it as 250gb but when I boot the windows (pre sp1+2) setup disc it only detects 131069mb. I've been told that pre SP2 windows has trouble detecting larger HDD's and has to be partitioned and formatted inside windows after installation. Anyone able to confirm this?

Thanks for any help you lovely fella's you.

 

[Zefan]

Excellent, that's a real help.

Thanks a lot.