"Yves Leclerc" wrote:

Did you install the SATA drivers? Did you do the install with XP that had
at leest SP1 pre-installed? What partition type (FAT32 / NTFS)?


"Dick" wrote in message
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Introduction: Just an old retired computer USER that gets into a lot of
trouble.

I am not sure that it is the problem of the SP2 but did not have the
problem
before installing it.
I have an Asus P4P800 Delux with chip set 865PE Intel Pent. 4 3.0 GHz
Serial ATA Controller.
I had a 200GB hard drive partitioned 80gb and 120gb. and a 30gb HD as the
boot drive. The problem started in that the boot drive only showed 8gb
capacity. The rest had to be there but not formated and I did not know
how
to handle that so I removed that drive and installed a 40GB HD as the
primary
drive. Before installing the new drive I disconnected the 200GB HD to
ensure
a clean installation and installed all the programs I had on the original
drive includeing XP SP2 from a disk provided from Microsoft.
The Problem... When I reconnected the 200GB HD only one partiction is
shown
and when I check the system properties under Volumes, I shows 191GB
capacity
but the volume shows only 40gb and is not assigned a drive letter. Also
it
does not show up on "My Computer"
Does anyone have any idea what my problem is.
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Thank you Yves,
I installede XP with sp! and then installed SP2 from a disk from Micorsoft.
The drive is formated in NTFS, and as far as if
SATA is installed, if it was on the Motherboard CD I think I did, but not
sure. The BIOS IDE configuration shows that Configure S-ATA as RAID is NO,
but also shows "Onboard IDE Operate Mode" - (Enhanced Mode)
"Enhanced Mode Support On - (S-ATA)
So I assume that the S-ATA mode is suppirted but RAID is not.
I hope that gives you enough info.
Thanks,
Dick