New HDD = 80GB but, Bios sees >1TB unpartioned space.

There's two things wrong:

1. You can't simply install a hard drive and then use it. You have to format it and/or install an operating system on it.

2. Your motherboard is a very old model. While it is new enough to support LBA48 mode (which is necessary to fully use hard drives above 127 GB), it is possible that it has an old BIOS version that does not support it. You should check ASUS' website to download and install the latest BIOS update.

right clik on my computer, then manage, then disc managmant, in it you can see your free space, right click on your free space, then greate new partion.

there was wrong in the set up of jumper in your 80gb hdd. Look closely to the 80gb harddrive, in between the ide cable terminal and the power supply connector you will see 8pin terminals paired together and a jumper use to short the paired terminals. It is most likely that the jumper was configure to detect your hdd as master. If the ide cable you use for the 80gb hdd was also use for the dvd/cdrom drive then it will conflict with it if both jumper setting was set to master. See the description of jumper settings in the sticker of the hdd. Position the jumper to slave.

Reboot your system again and see if the 80gb finally appear in your system. When system boot upon detection of hdd, the primary master should be 250gb while your primary/secondary slave will be read your 80gb hard disk.

Hi.
Xp will not detect the sata hdd you have to install the sata driver before the installation begins by pressing the F6 key or you can disable the SATA native support in the BIOS to install Xp.

The HDD must be installed with the OS it does not come preinstalled.

Your new HDD is blank.

If your HDD is brand new, maybe it is not formatted yet. Goto Control panel>Adminitrative tools>Computer management>Disk management. be sure not to mess with your fixed hard drives. Scroll down to to find the drive that is unpartioned. Right click and select make new partition. Follow the instructions of the wizard until the drive is partitioned and formatted.

This should solve your problem.

Few steps to check your harddisk status on the motherboard would resolve this issue. Checkin to the cmos setup and look for the detection of the HDD and the size it shows once you have done a formating.

Vista 64 bit shows issues at times while installing a new SATA 1TB HDD. Check if the 1TB HDD is installed on to SATA 0.

Use a WD Disk Manager and format the HDD initially and then try install Vista on to it. Else if this doesnt work on the system, Put the HD on to another working system and Format it with NTFS File system and try installing Vista.. You will be successful. Good Luck.

My computer properties system restore check if system restore is turned off.

If yes turn on all drives and restart.

If system restore is on then you need to create a new admin account and check system restore settings.

Also you need to have 6gb of free space in windows partition

Enjoy this will solve

Is this a 2nd hdd added into the system or a new primary replacing a hdd that you removed? If it is an additional hdd you will have to enable it in system bios & then format & partition it before you will be able to use it. Hope this helps.

if you have installed the linux in that space then it will not show some times ...
it will also not if it is not partioned correctly ...

you just go to

control panel >(classic view) >administrative tools >computer management >disk management (this is for windows XP)

see if there is any unpartioned space means then just format there by right clicking on it ....

if there is no unpartioned space then check how many drives you have .....
it will show all the partitions over here if you are not able to see some partition in your my computer then may be that partition may be in unsupported format so it is not showing you ... so delete that partition & reformat you will able to use it ...

if you still persist the problem then you can check the harddisk capacity first & then get on to the things ...

that s all your problem will be solved ...

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