250GB Hard drive recongnised as 130GB

[Shiwen]

I've inserted a new 250GB hard drive into my PC and the BIOS recognises that it is 250GB but when I go to install the hard drive in disk management it says it only has 130GB can anyone help me?

 

[Geoff]

Older motherboards use an older ATA controller which is only capable of reading up to 137GB I believe. To get around it you need to buy a PCI add-on card.

If its SATA, or it's a fairly new motherboard, then the problem is with your OS. If you have a version of Windows older then XP SP2 then they may not see the whole 250GB.

 

[Shiwen]

ok thank u. what if my bios tells me that the pc is P-ATA?

 

[Geoff]

Well is the hard drive that you got IDE or SATA?

 

[Shiwen]

It's Parallel-ATA

 

[Shiwen]

I m using an older hard drive but want to add some storage...so i need to partition this new 250GB hard drive

 

[StrangleHold]

If the bios is seeing the whole 250gbs then your using a pre SP XP cd, download SP2 and slipstream it to your XP cd then it should see the whole 250gbs

 

[Cromewell]

If it is an LBA problem, an updated BIOS (if available) should fix it. Generally if the BIOS and OS support it then you are good.