new HD install

[rick]

recently installed new WD HD on my XP . Windows does not
recognize full capacity of disk. I've already lost all
data on old drive , re-installed xp twice. Both drives
are from western digital, new 120gigs, old 15gigs. now
all I get (in windows) are disk is full, I cannot load
or download anything over 28mb , which would make the
partition full that xp is installed on, I have 1098mb
partition set aside for windows xp. How can i get windows
to fully see my disks? Oh bios does not either, it list
both drives as almost the same mb's , I have new ata ide
100 controller card by siig, it says pnp mgr list wd hd
as 14359mb at 80h location and wd hd #2 14250mb's at 81
location. thats not exactly the #'s, but pretty close.
Anybody , have an I dea what to do? I've tried getting
bios upgrade from gateway , but computer won't let me
install it. Went to WD they did online test says
everthings fine with my drives they tested fine.
Registry editor? I'am afraid to do it, anyone know
exactly how? Any help would be appreciated, Thank you!
rick at , (e-mail address removed)
gateway 550 essentials 3yrs old
intel pentium 3 processor
15gig WD HD (old), 120 WD HD (new),
DVD R\W rom drive , C\D rom R\W drive
320 mb ram (sdram)
new ata ide 100 dual
and rom drives controller card (for hard drives)

 

[Rich Barry]

Rick, do you have the right drivers for the Siig Controller Card?
Did you try a Bios Update and do you have SP1
installed?

 

[Bob Willard]

Rick, do you have the right drivers for the Siig Controller Card?
Did you try a Bios Update and do you have SP1
installed?

Don't bother with XP until BIOS reports the correct sizes.

If both HDs are on the same IDE cable, check the jumpers to make
sure one HD is the master and one is the slave, and make sure your
cable is the 80-wire (ATA66 or faster) flavor. If that all seems OK
you might try the HDs one at a time, jumpered as the master.

A better arrangement, of course, is for each HD to be the master of
its own IDE cable.