vista cant see my 320gb sata hd

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c4sTr0

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Im using 2 hard drives
160gb sata
320gb sata

when vista looks for a place to install it cant find my 320 but it finds my 160. i have tried different sata slots and cables and there is no problem there. Now later on when i have it installed on the 160 (the 320 is still connected) vista locates the other hard drive but it only has a 129gb capacity!
all i want to do is install vista on the 320, take out the 160, and be happy.
i installed a few things on the 320 in the past though. i have installed xp several times and linux once.
my guess is it might still have a partition taking up alot of space and not letting vista see it. is that what you guys think?
 
It sounds like a bios limitation, which is limiting the size of your harddrives to 129gb..this is a common problem. What motherboard are you using, and have you ever flashed your BIOS?
 
I've heard this problem before from a friend..He solved by booting off the Vista disc with only the larger hard drive inside and clean installed on it. hope that helps.
 
I just formatted the 320 and that took care of the capacity problem, its showing 298gb free now. but the only and main problem now is to have the vista boot disk detect the it. where it shows the list of hard disks to use it cant see it at all and says "No hard device detected" or something along those lines.
the 160 im using is sata so i dont see what the hell is the problem..
again, vista can see it when i have installed vista on the 160 and i go to my computer. it shows the 2 hard drives but the 160 has the windows logo on it.
 
alright thanks
im thinking of transfering all the data from my 160 to the 320 so i can remove the 160. do u have any idea how i can do that?
 
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