I bought a 160 GB hard drive -- time to upgrade to Linux?

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My BIOS recognizes all 160GB of my hard drive, but XP
only sees 128GB. I downloaded and installed SP1, but XP
still doesn't recognize the rest of the drive. I was
looking around some more, and found an article telling me
how to update atapi.sys, so I did that too; it didn't
work either. Is there a way to make this hard drive the
only drive on my system, and have XP see it as it really
is? Would buying an IDE card help? How about if I
destroy my XP CD and install Linux?
 
| My BIOS recognizes all 160GB of my hard drive, but XP
| only sees 128GB. I downloaded and installed SP1, but XP
| still doesn't recognize the rest of the drive. I was
| looking around some more, and found an article telling me
| how to update atapi.sys, so I did that too; it didn't
| work either. Is there a way to make this hard drive the
| only drive on my system, and have XP see it as it really
| is? Would buying an IDE card help? How about if I
| destroy my XP CD and install Linux?

Did you read your manual. This is from Western Digital. I

imagine that they are all about the same.

IMPORTANT: Use Data Lifeguard Tools 10.0 or later installation software
to access the full capacity of your hard drive. Hard drives larger than
137 GB require a controller card to utilize full drive capacity.
 
My 1 1/2y/o soyok7v mb and xp recognize the full 160g without the card - but i had updated the bios. I had conflicts in xp when
trying to use the controller card that came wth the card. Did your drive come with the controller?
 
No, I didn't read my manual. I feel stupid. Apparently,
my drive, which is a Maxtor, has a "Cylinder Limitation
Jumper" on the back. The manual says, "If the drive is
currently configured as master or cable select, you may
need to purchase an additional jumper from your local
computer retailer." What kind of crap is that? Thanks
for your help, both of you.

And I am going to install Linux on a separate drive, but
I also need Windows to feed my gaming addiction.
 
Run Disk Management (right click My Computer > Manage > Disk
Management). It should show the entire drive.
 
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