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200gb Seagate Barracuda

I plugged in a new 200gb hard drive to a windows 2000 maching. It reads as 200gb in the bios but in Windows Management it only sees it as a 130gb? what can i do so it see's the whole drive?
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Or, if you are using Windows XP, grab this from Seagate:

http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/download/reg_48bit_lba.exe
That program will enable 48-Bit LBA on both Windows 2000 & XP, which means you will be able to use the full 200gb
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Thank you for your help that was awesome. It worked !!!