Problem Seagate HD not being recognized.

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I have been trying to get my new harddrive to work in WinXP but haven't been successful as of yet.

Here are my specs.
Athlon 64 3000+ 90nm 939pin - 512K Winchester
MSI "K8N Neo4 Platinum" NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra Chipset For AMD Socket 939
PANRAM 1GB (2 x 512MB) DDR400(PC3200) Lat 2-3-2-5-T1 Model PDC1G3200LLK
ATI Radeon X800 XL 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express (OEM)
E-POWER "Tagan" Series 480W Power Supply, Model "TG-480" -RETAIL
K-Hypermedia 52x24x52 CD-RW
MicroAdvantage 8x4x40x Superdrive DVD+/-RW IDE internal
C: drive - Western Digital 74gb Raptor 10,000 RPM 8MB - 5 Yrs MFG Warranty.
F: drive - Maxtor DiamondMax 250GB Serial ATA150 NCQ 7200rpm 16mb buffer.
New Drive - Seagate 300gb Barracuda Ultra ATA/100 7200RPM 8mb Cache - ST3300831A

Ok I have the C: drive (Raptor) Hooked into my SATA 1 Port, and F: drive (Maxtor) Hooked into my SATA 2 Port.
My K-Hyp CD burner is Master on IDE1 Connector & Micro DVD as Slave on IDE1

So I hooked up the Seagate as Master on IDE2

Which is recognized in my bios.

But when I ran the Diskwizard for Windows (the program Seagate provides for setting up the HardDrive) I get the following message.

The drive model you entered is an ATA drive model. There are no open positions to add an ATA drive. If you wish to add an ATA drive, you must first shut down and remove one of your existing ATA devices.

Do I have too many hard drives for this type of Motherboard, I had three in this machine before but the third one I use to have in there was a:
Seagate 160GB Barracuda 7200.7 SATA 150 with NCQ Hard Drive, Model ST3160827AS

Any ideas what to do?

 

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Update
I was able to format the harddrive using the Seagate Dos Disk Utility, but was only able to format it at 127gb, windows sees it now. But Seagates Windows Utility doesn't see it, I guess it doesn't like looking at IDE2, the utility sees my CD & DVD burners on IDE1 and my two SATA drives, but it doesn't see the Seagate 300gb.

Any ideas?

 

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Ok Solved my own problem in the end, thanks for watching

It is just the stupid seagate windows software it doesn't think anyone would put there HD on IDE2 so it doesn't look for it. Stupid and frustrating.

I just switched it to IDE1 booted used the utility to format it so that it is now 279gb and then switched it back to IDE2 where I wanted it.

Thanks again.