I am running Win2k Pro. I bought me a 160gig Maxtor hard drive, installed it as slave to my 40gig Maxtor that already has Win2k on it, and when windows booted so that i could format, it said it was 128 gig. I check the bios and it says that it's 160 gig... HELP! i have no clue as to what i'm supposed to do now. Thanks Scott

if it says it is 160 in the cmos then it is 160 alright but y dont you just go ahead and format it anyway or download a tool to format it

do you know of a tool i can use?

Us a boootdisk with Fdisk/format utils... http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q255/8/67.ASP or use W2K (on Master drive) Disk Manager/Admin to do the job. You may be running into the maths that goes around the sizing of disks... http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/geom/format.htm left column, bottom of list.

or u can just download maxblast plus from Maxtor and use their utility to set up your hard drive, you cant go wrong with this.

Most motherboards can only recognice upto 128GB. In order to access the full 160 youneed to buy a new ATA133 controller card. If you had done some research prior to buying this drive you have known about his limitation. BTW, this is also why 120GB drives are far more common than the 160.

Mark: Thanx for the info re 'larger (160Gig) drives.