HELP Please! :(

[Ed Gibson]

HEllo,

My name is Ed. I hope some one can help me. I just bought a Seagate 200gb Hard drive and it installed just fine. But I only show 128gb of space. Can some please tell me if I need to update my Bios and if so where can I get the update.

My motherboard model is: ECS k7vma 1.0 motherboard.

Thank you.

[Ruslan]

Welcome to Windrivers Forums, Ed!
1. www.ecsusa.com (please be careful with BIOS update!). However, I'm very doubtful ECS has any update for that board supporting drives more than 128G (that's the BIOS limit for most of outdated motherboards).
2. Make sure you have installed Win XP with at least Service Pack 1 update.

There is another way to have that drive installed on your MB:
1. You'll need another (smaller - less than 128G) HDD. Install the WinXP SP1 (or SP2)on that drive.
2. Connect your 200G drive as secondary and do not detect (!) it in BIOS. Then you'll boot into Windows, you should be able to see all the space on that drive under Disk Management tool in XP.

[Ed Gibson]

Thanks Ruslan!

[Ruslan]

You're welcome!