Hard Drive reading 1/2 size

From: macs312@xxxxxxxxx
Date: 6 Jan 2006 23:43:42 -0800

My 300 GB drive is recognized as about 140 GB in a new build.

I purchased the drive a few months ago & it has shown accurate size as
the 2nd drive in a system since then (using it with PCI SATA card).
When I used it as the only drive in a new build, the drive isn't
recognized correctly.

GIGABYTE GA-K8NF-9 NVIDIA nForce4
Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6L300S0 300GB
Windows XP pro

This is the first build I've done with the O.S. on SATA. The MOBO has
RAID options, but I disabled them in BIOS. I still suspect the problem
deals with RAID somehow, but I have no clue on where to begin.

Please help.

Thanks,
Mac

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