Where my HD?

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.Wiggles.

Limp Gawd
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this is my first build and i bought 2 hard drives, a raptor 74gb and a 250gb caviarSE. My 250gb wont show up in my computer or bios? what can i do?
 
If this is during install, you need to load the motherboard sata drivers by hitting f6 when the install asks you to. See item 1.) in my sig. If windows is installed see item 2.)
 
.Wiggles. said:
okay i got that, now its showing it only has 131 gb instead of 250gb?
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I'll take a guess and say you haven't installed SP 2 yet. Install SP 2 and check it again. You should then be able to see and use the whole drive. SP1 and or SP2 add 48 bit logical block addressing support that will let you use a drive larger than 132 gig.
 
You'll need a xp install disc with sp2 integrated into it. The other option is to install the os to the raptor, then format the other drive once you have windows up and running. That should allow you to see the entire drive without issues.
 
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