HELP: Can't see 52GB on my new IBM 180GB Hard drive

[Diana]

I bought IBM Deskstar 180GXP hard drive and installed it as a slave
drive. I finished formatting the new drive using Disk Management tool
(Windows XP). Here, I can only see 128 GB of space instead of the 180
GB. I don't understand whats going on... When I ran IBM drive fitness
tests, it showed 180 GB (infact 185.something GB). All the tests were
successful. I don't know whats going on!! 50+GB is a substantial
portion of total space. Can someone help?

Also, I checked in the BIOS for the primary slave drive. It shows 132
GB there. Don't know if this would help figure out the answer to my
query.

Thanks folks

 

[V@H]

U need to update your bios or get a new controller card that supports >
128gb (137gb) drives.

 

[Markus]

if you use win2k or winxp, just disable the drive in bios (you are not able
to boot from it, though) and windows will take care of the drive by itself,
allowing you to use the full capacity.
so if this is your only drive you have, just get your hands on some small
drive someone has lying around and use it to boot.

(just in case the bios update is not avail or new controller is too
expensive)

 

[Andy]

Windows XP can't see past the 137GB boundary until you apply service
pack 1 to the operating system.