137Mb Problem with new 250Gb Hard Drive but bios can see old 250Gb HD?!

[david.iorlano]

I have just installed a new hard drive identicle to my existing
(bootable) hard drive (a WD 250GB SATA 2).

The strange thing is that the bios is telling me that it is only 137Mb.

The existing hard drive is showing the full capacity.
This leads me to believe that there is nothing wrong with my MB at all.
But if it isn't the bios then what is it??
Windows (XP SP 2) is also seeing it as this smaller size.
Any assistance would be appreciated.

 

[Guest]

I have just installed a new hard drive identicle to my existing
(bootable) hard drive (a WD 250GB SATA 2).

The strange thing is that the bios is telling me that it is only 137Mb.

The existing hard drive is showing the full capacity.
This leads me to believe that there is nothing wrong with my MB at all.
But if it isn't the bios then what is it??
Windows (XP SP 2) is also seeing it as this smaller size.
Any assistance would be appreciated.

Try putting the parameters of the drive in manually.

 

[Guest]

Check the drive manufacturer's website for tools to enable LBA. I've had
this problem with other drives and it's fixed them (but haven't tried it with
SATA).

- John

 

[Guest]

did you try formating in xp and making a dynamic partition? windows xp can
only see hard drives up to 137gb before you maunally configure them in the
administrative tools>computer management>disk management