I'm INSTALLING a new Spinpoint 500Gb SATA 2 HDD with Windows 2000 Pro - Service Pack 4 slipstreamed.
SETUP offers me just 130Gb of unallocated space. I know there's a fix for this, but I don't know what it is. You need to enable LBA, probably in the BIOS. Your motherboard MANUAL will give instructions.
Hope this helps.The Spinpoint drives have a tool you can download for the full drive to be seen by windows.


http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/support/utilities/Support_DiskManager.html

What motherboard are you using? An old motherboard may not see all 500GB of the drive.It's a Gigabyte S series and , fortunately, the mobo disk had a software tool for large drive recognition. It still doesn't allow me to PARTITION the drive during Setup though, so I'm stuck with my OS on a 130Gb partition. Nevermind, the whole drive is now seen. Thanks for the responses. Its no problem, You might have to play a bit of a game of musical hard drives if you want one large partition though. No, I'm going to partition the rest of the HDD. It's just that 130Gb is way too much for my OS drive. Nevermind, I can live with it for the time being. Thanks again.