Recognizing HardDrive Problems

Hi,
I just bought a 160Gb Samsung P80/SP 1614N ATA 133 harddrive.
My mother board is a MSI K7N2 Delta-L, which recognizes the harddrive in bios as a 160Gb drive. But when i go to format the drive in Windows Xp, it shows up as a 130Gb drive. I lost 30Gb some where!!!
I've update to the lastest bios to 5.6 which made my CPU temp go up 10 degrees (dammit!!!) But my drive in Windows Xp format still shows up as a 130Gb.
So i format the drive anyway and in the end it showed the size of the drive to be about 130Gb.
Bugger if i know what to do next.
Can anyone help me, please.

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Yep! Google is a wonderful thing.
"Thanks clarkent57" ur a true viking genius. it took a while to do, but it worked!
My WIN XP PRO disc was an old build, but thanks to u i have an updated disc with SP1 built in, that works swell. I formated the drive as a 152617Gb (that's the maximum it will go. is that right?) which is a lot better than before.
Thx again Clarkkent57

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Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Mac OS X doesn't have a "clean install" per se as this user tip explains:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=121995&tstart=0
Now your symptoms can just as easily be software as well as hardware.
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http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
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http://www.macmaps.com/directoryfaq.html
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