250GB HHD, only seeing 130GB...

Ok, just put my new system together  - mostly trouble-free!   Prescott 3.4 GHz running fine at 34C idle.  
Just a couple of gripes, which hopefully someone can help with...
Firstly, there's a Maxtor 250GB SATA hard drive installed. I enabled SATA on the BIOS (v3.2, as shipped) and it picked it up, but when I booted from the XP install disc to format and partition, it only came up as 130GB available! Is this a mobo/BIOS restriction? I'm not running RAID.  
Secondly, there's only 1 audio connector for optical drives (most people I know have 2 these days), and the rear audio doesn't work if the front connectors are attached!  How crap is that? Other than getting a sound card, can anything be done?
Many thanks! Full spec on sig…
Paul C

if you install xp and then sp1 you dont get support for big harddrives automaticly.
maxtor got a webpage with a program for that.
if its a slipstreamed version then you get support for it directly.
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Secondly, there's only 1 audio connector for optical drives (most people I know have 2 these days), and the rear audio doesn't work if the front connectors are attached! How crap is that? Other than getting a sound card, can anything be done?
on how to connect it.

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