Sata Not Recognised As A 300gb Drive

Does anyone know why the drive is only recognised in windows as a 160Gb Drive. It really is a Maxline 300Gb 16mb cache SATA.

Im also having problems with a K8 Neo 2 plat. it works ok with one 300Gb Maxtor but add a second 300Gb drive and it plays up like you would not believe.
basicly it wont do a warm start, it hangs and the drives make odd sounds like they are seeking for somthing,
turn the pc off and on again and it boots and works perfect.

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