Most likely the BIOS in your computer does not support hard drives that
large. What size does the BIOS setup screen report?

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"richard" wrote in message
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in the bios it says 200GB, but when installing the operating system..it
only
show an unpartitioned space of 131GB. can anyone suggest why it would do
this? it is set up as primary slave rite now.