HELP!!! K8N Neo2 Platinum SATA setup question

Luthien

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Feb 1, 2004
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Just spent most of my morning making sure I installed everything correctly on my new system. I only installed one of my SATA HD because I am certain the other is damaged in shipping and I dont want any problems so am not installing it till later to see for sure. Anyhow, system boots up fine so far and I get to windows xp setup and it actually sees the SATA HD but only @ 131GB and it is a 200GB drive. I am not goint to be using a RAID setup so do I still need to hit F6 and install those drivers? Should I just partition the 131GB and install the OS on that and use Partition magic or other software to increase the storage space to 200GB? Or will the SATA raid drives also increase the storage space to the proper 200GB? Just dont want to screw something up as I already have made a few mistakes that could have resulted in problems. Just trying to be careful since replace my cpu and mobo would take forever since both are scarce at this time. thanks for the help
 

JackBurton

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You need to install Windows XP with SP1 slipstreamed into it to see the whole 200GB after the install.
 

Luthien

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Nevermind solved it myself. I installed with 131 and used partitition magic to fix it. Was a piece of cake.