i have a asus a7v8k motherboard with a 80G harddrive.i recently added
a 200G drive on as primary slave.the 200G drive is only seen as 30G in
the bios.when i put it as primary master it was seen as 130G.what can
i do as i need to have both drives installed(total 280G)i am running xp pro

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Request for Question Clarification by denco-ga on 21 Dec 2004 22:12 PST

Howdy delltech-ga,

What version of the BIOS is on the motherboard?

What happens if you set the new (200G) drive as the secondary master?

Thanks!  denco-ga - Google Answers Researcher

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Request for Question Clarification by endo-ga on 26 Dec 2004 09:15 PST

Hi,

Sounds like you need a BIOS upgrade.

Please download it from:

Asus download page
http://www.asus.com/support/download/download.aspx

Could the actual motherboard model be different to the one you wrote?

Thanks.
endo

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Clarification of Question by delltech-ga on 03 Jan 2005 07:27 PST

I am using the bios 1014(latest).if the 200G drive is installed on the
secondary master it is seen as 130G.I recently downloaded the 1015
bios upgrade but as it is only a beta version i havent installed it
yet.

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Request for Question Clarification by denco-ga on 03 Jan 2005 11:36 PST

Howdy delltech-ga,

I don't blame you for not wanting to use a beta version of a BIOS.  I
would not do that either.

Your best alternative to accessing all 200G of the new drive might be
to use a partitioning tool.

Please check out the tools available here and see if any of them help.

48-bit LBA Tools & Drivers web page on 48bitLBA.com.
http://www.48bitlba.com/tools.htm

Thanks!  denco-ga - Google Answers Researcher