Hey yawl, i tried option #1 that stormy13 told me about and that did not work. The system still says that the hard drive only has 137 gig capacity. In this forum and others i have read some posts that makes me wounder if i need to do the F6 during XP installation and install a SATA/RAID driver for the motherboard. A number of posts say that the driver loaded for Vista can not be reconized by XP. Prior to doing stormy13's step #1 i got the XP driver package from the maker of the motherboard and that took care of all of the other devices built into the board but i'm not sure if it installed any kind of a SATA/RAID driver. Any ideals and warnings would be great!