Misreported Hard Drive Size

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Aimee D

Windows XP setup only sees 8gb of my new 56gb hard drive.
The computer is brand new (Athlon xp 2600, Abit nf7-s
motherboard, 256 mb ram), and i have updated to the latest
bios. The bios sees the correct size for this hard drive,
so I don't think its the hardware causing the problem.
Just out of curiosity, I installed Windows ME on it and it
sees the whole hard drive. Also installed Windows 98, and
it also saw the whole hard drive....... So why doesn't
Windows XP see the whole drive also???????

help!

thanks for reading.
 
NTFS, but it only asks me that after it reports the
incorrect size for the hard drive.... ie. before i even
get the chance to choose between fat32 or NTFS formatting,
windows XP will show that I only have an 8032 MB
unpartitioned hard drive when the bios shows it to be
~56000 MB (something like that).

I deleted all partitions prior to inserting the XP cd and
booting off of that. That way I knew I had a 'clean' hard
drive.
 
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