320gb hard drive recognized as 127gb!

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  1. HeyYoWL

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    Hey guys, I have an ASUS P4S333 motherboard from maybe 4 years ago, and I just recently bought a 320GB Seagate IDE hard drive. The problem is, it only recognizes it as 127gb, leaving almost 200 gb of unused space! Does anyone know how to get around this? I have Windows XP SP-2, and I have the latest BIOS for my motherboard (though the last revision was August 9, 2002), so I'm not sure what to do. Does anyone know if it would work if I took the hard drive and formatted it at my friend's place (a new PC), and put it back in my PC?
     
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    Just an idea have you checked your jumper settings. For example my IDE 160gb drive had a jumper setting to be 80gb... Just an idea!

    Lecsiy
     
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    lecsiy, it is a xp problem not jumper problem.
     
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    Kool, just thought id mention that i had a problem similar! Very annoying it was a misplaced jumper! Damn little things!
     

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