the disk management tool also shows it as the 300gb, but it won't let me
format it or anything.
no messages that help at all as unable to format is all that happens.
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HD Tune, provides drive info (including if your PC supports Large drives,
AKA 48Bit LBA)
and has an option to test your drive.
http://www.hdtune.com/
48Bit LBA Info:
http://www.48bitlba.com/winxp.htm
Also see MS article:
How to enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing support for ATAPI disk drives
in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013&Product=winxp
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