I have just installed a new 160gb Western Digital hard drive but it is not giving me the full 160gb. In the bios it says 137.4gb and in 'My computer' it shows as 149gb with 69.1 mb used.

Also in Windows XP under 'disk management' in control panel when its first installed or i try to format it a 'dynamic disk and volume wizard' popups to create the disk as a dynamic disk and a volume. So, then i formatted it, also it doesnt support partioning the drive and when formatting it only lets you format in NTFS file system, there is no FAT32.

The drive is installed as a secondary slave with a DVD-rewriter as the primary device. I had other hard drives on the same channel in the same setup and there was no problem. The 2 other disks show 'basic' disks and not 'dynamic' disk in 'disk management'

The system thinks i want to use this hard drive as a dynamic disk as part of a RAID system.