hey guys,
i recently installed windows xp service pack 1 on a new system i built.  I have a 250GB HDD but as we all know, old versions of XP can only read 131gb.  so i updated to sp2 and now it shows my hdd is 250GB, but only 131gb are usable because the rest isnt formatted.  i ran disk management and selected to format all the unallocated space to a new D: drive.  however as soon as the formatting finished, the computer crashed.  i couldnt get it to boot again until i shut off the machine and turned it back on.  now it shows the D: drive in My Computer, but it still isnt formatted.  i tried formatting it again as NTFS by using windows, partition magic, and even a clean install using slipstreamed xp sp2 cd, but again it crashed upon completion.  i originally thought that maybe my copy of windows was bad but i tried 3 DIFFERENT CDS and versions and it still doesnt work.  does anyone know what i can do to get the rest of my hard drive space usable?  im assuming its either the MOBO or the harddrive thats the problem
thanks alot for the help

p.s.   i have a Gigabyte ga-p35-ds3l (rev 1.0) and a 250GB 7200.10 Seagate HDD

I don't necessarily have the answer, but ran across some links you may want to look at:

    http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/tp/137gb.pdf

    http://support.microsoft.com/?id=303013

    http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/forum/hardware-problems/24446-hard-drive-mbr-data-corrupt-under-xp-sp2-security-changes.htmlhey try my link instead of his!
http://winhlp.com/node/125#Computer_does_not_work_properly_with_Service_Pack_2