200GB Harddrive PROBLEM

[moen]

There are many possibilities
I have never had good luck with Maxtor MaxBlast
Are you mixing IDE and SATA hard drives??
Is your chipset more than 2 years old?
If you add up all the regognized hard drive space, does it add up to 137.4 gig of actual space???
How did you set up your original drives?...with MSdos or PCdos bootdisk?
hopefully you reformatted or disconnected the original 30gig with the old OS.

Are the individual hard drives set correctly to master, slave, single master, etc...for example with Western Digital disk, if you have a master hard drive and one or more slaves, the master has to be set as "master with slave". If you then disconnect the slave(s) you have to reset the master to "single master". We have 4 computers with about 10hard drives between them and I like Western Digital drives, but they are more finicky about settings than say Maxtors or Seagates.

You should disconnect the other drives while you try to install the OS on the 120 GIG drive.
If you partitioned with WinXP diskmanager, you have to make the disk a basic disk, and not a dynamic disk, because you cannot install any OS on a dynamic disk partitioin.
Need to know a bit about what mobo and other hard ware.
I have had my share of problems installing OS's.
ALso, if you have more than one optical drive on one IDE controller, then sometimes Windows will only install from the master optical drive.