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i finly got around to installing the 250 gig (thanx greg)

ok it happend xp pro only found 130 gigs

bios found all of it its a biostar M7VIZ running a xp 2600

questions

me

Had a friend with similar problem he did not have XP updated with SP1 when he applied SP1 it recognized his 200 gig HDD just fine. Could also be the IDE controller, some older ones will not recognize a HDD that size.

it is a freah install

be right back

me

As Dad said, assuming you have SP1 installed, then it's your controller. Some don't recognize drives over 120Gb. You may need to purchase a controller card like a Promise ATA133 controller.

If BIOS is reporting the right size then the controller is not the problem.

I'd check the mobo manufacturer's website fto see if there's a BIOS update for the mobo and/or an updated IDE driver.

Once SP1 is installed, run Disk Manager. Chances are that Disk Manager will see the whole drive, but you will only have a 120Gb partition on it. You will then need to create a 2nd partition or use Partition Magic to enlarge the existing one.

I would STRONGLY recommend a 2nd partition. It's not a good idea to partition that large a drive as one partition, and it'll make it a lot easier for you to make Ghost images of the main partition.

i updated the bios all for a different reasion

its current

in just working on getting the onboard nic working

me

ask the mboard maker. if they have an 800 phone # abuse it er um use it.

Greg

ok its its bean a bitch

the on beard nic is not getting a ip

but it works b/c i can find my other systems

even when i put a i/o nic in

still no isp ip

any ideas

me

Try setting up the IP,gateway and DNS manually.