Oh boy, your using a Maxtor Large Capacity Drive ha?

Just went through this with a customers machine. Make sure your disk is XP with SP2 (whether it be home or pro) and go to Maxtor.com and get the BIG DRIVE ENABLER patch and see what happens with your installation.

That Maxtor drive was a pain in the A$$!!!!! Will not read any larger than 130 without the 48 bit LBA support installed and enabled, which comes with SP2. The only way we got it was to use XP disk with SP2. We use OEM disks purchased at a discount that say "dell" on them and ours didn't have SP2. However, our Home disk did!

Hope it helps!

Sharon