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Bluesman Paul

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mybe someone can tell me or point me in the right direction . i just built my own computer . it's a 3.40gig,abit motherboard ,775 socket , 4gig of ram and 2 300gig hard drives .
this is my new gaming computer .
so my question is my computer only sees 130gig on each of the hard drives . what do i have to do to get it to see all of the 300gigs on each one . i put xp home , next i will try pro .

please help
thanks in advance
bluesman paul

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gerryf

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You left out the most important details

motherboard make and model
make and model of harddrives
version of windows (specifically, service pack)

Some motherboards require bios updates to see large drives
Windows XP requires the latest service pack or a special patch from the harddrive maker
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