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Originally posted by lynx@24 April 2004 - 08:17
I think it is disk space.
Although you've physically got enough space I suspect that the bios doesn't recognise drives of that size (not enough address bits). A 5GB drive requires 25 address bits. If your mobo only supports 24 (or less) address bits you only get the difference, which in some cases can end up as low as about 20MB.
The way round it is to get one of the bios modifier patches which you load onto your hd. You don't need one for XP but you certainly do for ME. If you had ME on there first, followed by XP, then XP will almost certainly have removed the patch. Alternatively killdisk and various partition managers can remove it.
Go to the manufacturer's web site and see if the patch is still available.
when I had it running before it had a 30gb drive in it, so I know for a fact it can recognise drives up to at least that size!