Unrecognised SATA Asus P5KC Mobo

[NewbieBuilder]

Hi

I have a 250gig SATA drive.
The Mobo is a Asus P5KC, this is a new build.
on the XP installation i chose to install a third party scsi/raid driver
I selected the one from the list and installed it i thought. however no matter what i do i always still get about 130gig of the 250.
ive read the manual and it says you can create a raid by pressing Ctrl+J after POST??? i try this and nothing happens. i know this is all very vague but im not really great with doing this sort of thing.
When i first bought the drive a couple of years ago all i had to do on another installation was install disk in floppy drive and then choose the A: and it pretty much did all the rest for me and the total size of the disk was seen. this installtion and setup seems not to want to do it the same way.

If anyone has any experiance with this Mobo and Setup and can help me out it would be appreciated.

Thank You

[Cricket]

Does the 250GB HDD have anything on it now?

How is it partitioned? And what size is that partition?

Are you seeing the 130GB in the BIOS or in Windows?

Cricket

[glc]

Sounds like your XP CD doesn't have any service packs.

You do not need to install any drivers via floppy if you set the SATA controller to IDE mode. If you set it to AHCI or RAID, then you need a driver. You do not want to use RAID mode with only one drive.

[NewbieBuilder]

Originally Posted by Cricket Does the 250GB HDD have anything on it now? How is it partitioned? And what size is that partition? Are you seeing the 130GB in the BIOS or in Windows? Cricket

it has Windows on it thats it.

its not partitioned, windows is just installed on default and the size shows up in Windows XP install windows and in installed windows.

even in IDE and RAID it shows as 130gig.

I also just have a Vanilla XP CD i bought it near when it first came out, is it worth getting a XP CD from windows that has SP2 in it.
Is that possible?

[glc]

You need to slipstream SP2 into it. The vanilla XP can only see 128gb. If you would rather not deal with this, install SP2 now, then you can create another partition to use the rest of the drive.

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase...slipstream.asp

[NewbieBuilder]

Originally Posted by glc You need to slipstream SP2 into it. The vanilla XP can only see 128gb. If you would rather not deal with this, install SP2 now, then you can create another partition to use the rest of the drive. http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase...slipstream.asp

i think i can attempt this. question is do i still need the RAID drivers or with XPSP2 itll recognise the full size of the drive?

[shadowpr]

With sp2 it should recognize the full size.

You shouldn't need the raid drivers if you set it to run in ide mode.

[glc]

There are 3 modes - IDE, AHCI, and RAID. IDE does not need drivers, the other 2 do. You may get better performance with AHCI but you may need an IDE CD drive to get it to boot to a CD if you use that mode.