New harddrive not fully recognized

window 95a (osr1) will not recognize disks bigger than 2 gigabytes. But, using disk manager or dynamic drive overlay, you can fool win95 into thinking it has a bigger drive.

It sounds like a windows problem, not a motherboard problem.

If you have windows 95 version it will not recognize athe full capacity,if it is win98 you may be able to flash the bios to update and it will then recognize it .
Other than you will have to use the software that came with drive .

Dear Dean,
I have seen a similar problem before. If the
BIOS is recognizing and showing the drive as 10GB, then the problem is in DOS.
Try booting the computer with a floppy boot disk. Use FDisk and check the partition size
(that's option 4) of the partition. If it shows 2,048MB, that's your problem. On some systems, windows will limit itself to the first 1024 cylinders (2GB). Especially, if you are loading an OEM OS without formatting the disk first.
If this is the situation, you have 2 alternatives to fix it. 1) While you are in FDISK remove the partition, reboot using the "boot with CD support" option and repartition in FDISK. After you remake the partition, reboot and format the drive. (The
Format utility will be on a different drive from A: & C:, watch as the system boots as to the drive letter of the "Diagnostic Tools".) Then reload all of your OS and programs. 2) You other option is to get a partition management program like Partition Magic. It will let you rearrange/resize partitions without the loss of data.
As a final note, check for a BIOS upadate that will ensure that your drive is recognized in it's full(er) capacity(some of the older systems can't see more than 8GB even with a BIOS update), as well as a driver patch from the drive manufacturer for the BIOS limitation.
Let me know how this does you.