New hard drive, wont detect full size

I acquired a new 250GB hard drive and properly selected the jumpers to master mode and its now the only hard drive on the system.

On the hard drive itself it says to use LBA mode and according to my motherboard manual you cant use anything but LBA mode anyways unless the hard drive is less than 504mb.

Well when I run the windows 2000 boot up disks and it shows the hard drive asking me whether I want to create a partition or not or just use what it displays withouth creating a partition it only shows 125GB, theres nothing else it displays, when I install windows and check drive C properties all that displays is 125GB naturally.

Bios seems to detect the whole thing, it shows 250,000MB as it should. My friend runs a terabyte on 2000 so Im sure I shouldnt have a problem running 250GB..

Im really out of ideas on what to do next..

OH FUCKING UPGRADE TO XP SP2 ALREADY YOU FUCKASS

^XP has the same problem as 2000 in this regards, it shows up on Microsofts site you FUCKASS, if there'd be a good reason to upgrade Id upgrade but their aint..

After you've installed Windows 2000, run compmgmt.msc. On the left pane, under Storage, click on Disk Management. Hopefully, you should see the other 125 GB as unpartitioned space. You can then right click on it and create a new partition. If this doesn't work, try some partition management utility.

Could also be a BIOS problem, depending on how old the mainboard is. Try a BIOS update.

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I wouldn't be here if I was using Gentoo... I'd be compiling.

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You can compile and post at the same time with Gentoo. AND use all the space on your hard drive.

"After you've installed Windows 2000, run compmgmt.msc. On the left pane, under Storage, click on Disk Management. Hopefully, you should see the other 125 GB as unpartitioned space. You can then right click on it and create a new partition. If this doesn't work, try some partition management utility."

For anyone still encountering this problem, this worked for me.

How do we know you are telling the truth?