I recently purchased a 250GB Maxtor Diamond Max hard drive to be used on a brand new system. This is subject to change but I tried installing Debian-Woody on the box.

The bios shows the drive as a 250GB drive, but when I try to partition and format the drive it only shows 127GB I've also tried to set up the drive in an already functioning box and fdisk shows me the same thing.

Is there some fdisk update I need? Is there a different distribution of Debian I should use?

The specs of the computer are as follows:

* AMD Athlon™ XP 2600+ Learn More
* MSI KT6 VLSR(KT600/DDR400/8AGP/A/L)
* 512MB PC3200 DDR Memory 400 MHZ Learn More
* 10/100 Network Interface Onboard
* AC97 Codec 3D Onboard Sound
* ARTEC 868WSP Mid Tower Case 420W Silver
* Riva TNT2 Ultra video card

Motherboard Specifications

* CPU: Socket a For Athlon™/Athlon™ XP/Duron up to 3200+; FSB400/333/266MHZ
* Chipset: VIA KT600/VT 8237
* Memory: Two 184-PIN DIMMS For DDR400/333/266 UP TO 2GB
* IDE: S-ATA150 PLUS ATA133
* Raid: S-ATA150 Raid 0 OR Raid 1
* Slot: 1*AGP(8X); 5*PCI
* LAN: Broadcom 4401 10/100 Ethernet
* Audio: 6-Channel Software Audio Codec C-Media 9739A
* ** 8*USB(Rear*6/Front*2) **
* ATX, Retail

I would try the Sarge install disks it is soon to become the new stable release anyway and if necessary boot it with the linux26 parameter to see if a 2.6 kernel will recognize the whole drive.