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selmesjay
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_ 		16. January 2006 @ 23:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
hay guys in the process of building my new computer.

i have a seagate 250gb hard drive in bios from some reason its reading my sata hard disk at 4th master and not primary master drive.

when i boot XP from the cd and go into the partitioning and windeos setup it says i only have a total of 135GB of free space to install windows. But in bios is states 250GB working at recognised.

Can anyone help as i dont want to lose half of the drive space.

Your help is appreciated

cheers Jace
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_ 		17. January 2006 @ 01:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
you need the large drive enabler file available here

http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/menuitem.3c67e325e0a6b1f...

i know it says maxtor but its the same file for all drives

also you should search the forums before posting as this topic has been covered an unpresidented amount of times
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